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Hi Leatherface, welcome to the best forum on the net.

Welcome ProTruckDriver. Lots & lots of good info on this forum for sure - you found the best forum!

I wonder if these guys can even get life insurance.

Absolutely amazing how anyone could do this. I will never again complain about any job I need to do! For an old guy like you Dennis, you have to be careful watching terrifying videos

Thank you Shane for a great program, it works great. I just found out about it today on this forum and downloaded v1.7 Your effort is much appreciated.

Jamin, what a lovely video.

Dear Gail, I'm so deeply sorry and I wish you and your family all the very best in dealing with this. My feelings are expressed so well in the posts by other members, I could not possibly say it better. Stay strong and fight this thing as best you can. Our thoughts will be with you.

ROFLMAO

My wife and I were sent the following ecard and it put a big smile on our faces. cute ecard

Merry Christmas everyone! Great to have you back Dennis.

Bought a new drive and all is working great now. Thank you everyone for all your advice.

I always use good CD brands. Also, can't play any (good quality) recorded CD.

Thanks for your input Moonbase. I have not installed any new programs since it was working fine a little while ago, so that would not be the problem.

I did what you suggested Hazel and it's still not working I agree that the best solution at this point is to buy a new one. Thank you everyone for all your suggestions, I truly appreciate your help.

I have never noticed any unusual noise. I have tried several CDs.

I just discovered something very weird. Windows recognizes a DVD in my CD/DVD drive, so it appears that my problem is only with a CD. In the past I used 'WinAVI Video Converter" to convert video files and burn to DVD. Any ideas given this new info.

I doubt this helps in any way what-so-ever, but my CD ROM is "HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55N".

Not sure what you mean jc, please elaborate a little.

I checked the cables and they looked fine, but I haven't replaced them....at least not yet. I did try another burner program - Windows Media Player.

The more I think about it, the more I think you are right Andavari, about needing to replace my CD/DVD drive. The fact that no new drivers have been installed and all was working fine and then suddenly not. I did check that the drive is in DMA mode. I also tried to burn via Windows Media Player (instead of Ashampoo), still didn't work

No, Windows does not detect it. All was working fine numerous times in the past and more recently when I burned a DVD. Then a couple of weeks later I now wish to burn a music CD and I find this issue.

I tried the manual fix last night and it did not solve the problem. The error message when I tried to run the auto fix is as follows:

I figure someone amongst the clever masses on this forum may be able to help me with this recent problem. I used to be able to play CDs on my PC and I have recorded numerous music CDs (using Ashampoo Burning Studio). Very recently, this is no longer possible. When I try to record some music on a CD, a message states that there is no CD/DVD in the drive. I have not updated any drivers and when I check the status of my CD ROM in Device Manager, it states that the device is working properly. Any ideas as to how to fix this problem? Your time is greatly appreciated!

Unless I missed a post in this thread, I guess I'm the second oldest amongst those who posted. Just turned 62 end of last month. Sure is weird for me to think all those years have gone. Mentally I feel like I'm 22 with a little more of "life's lessons".