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Hello,

Could anyone out there shed some light on a weird problem?

For some unknown reason, what used to be my DVD writer is now a CD writer! It won't write DVDs even though it used to. It will only write CDS now.

I have made a few changes, such as changing my hard drive as it was fucked, and changing the power supply. I don't understand why this has happened.

Please help. Thanks.

it's probably dead. the DVD laser and the CD laser are seperate. one can die and the other can work still.

garyb wrote:it's probably dead. the DVD laser and the CD laser are seperate. one can die and the other can work still.

Thanks for your response Garyb.

I tried different media thinking that may be it , also disabling the writer in Device Manager and allowing Windows to detect it automatically. In Device Manager it says everything is working fine. The trouble is when I place a DVD in the drive it changes status from DVD writer to CD only.

A thought occurred to me. I haven't got Nero installed, but I have it lying around somewhere. I was trying to burn the DVD with just Windows, so would installing Nero solve the problem? Is it because XP can't write DVDs?

Thanks.

true, xp doesn't write DVDs....

As a last resort, you could try it in another computer.