I have a Lite-On LH-18A1P SCSI, black OEM. I have genuine WinXP SP2 with all patches updated. Under Device Manager, the drive is working fine, apparently, and when I insert DVDs (movies, programs, anything), the drive reads them just fine. I haven't tried Audio CDs, but I assume they work fine as well. The problem is that none of my CD burning programs will recognize the drive. I tried burning through iTunes, Win Media Player, the XP Win Explorer, etc. The programs can't even see the drive ("No device detected") and so when I put blank CDs in the drive, nothing is read and nothing shows up. I can't burn anything! What gives? Any help, or what I should try doing? Much appreciated!
Say that again, so if you put in a disc with data it plays, right, but if you put in a blank nothing happens, is that right, have you tried both cdroms and dvd roms with data and without ? Have you tried powering down your mobo disconnecting your drive, wait 5 minutes then reboot with the drive disconnected wait till windows loads then shut down again reconnect your drive reboot wait for windows to reinstall and recognize the drive and try again. I had a customer with a similar problem they brought me the cpu I did this and believe it or not it worked just fine afterwards I think it was some quirk in the cache which gets flushed after a power down, but I actually can't say for sure that was it.
