My computer won't read blank cds?

Question

My computer reads audio cds and cds with information already on them (such as burned music cds, data cds, etc), but won't read a blank cd. If I insert a blank cd into the cd-rom drive, the computer indicates that is detecting it, but then it never allows me to open the cd (D:\) drive. When I double click on my D:\ drive in My Computer, it says, please insert a disk into drive D:. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Answer 1

Apparently you have a CD-ROM (Read-Only Memory) drive, and not a CD-R (Writer) drive. It'll read CD's that already have information on them, but not recognize, or write to, a blank. If you want to burn CD's you'll have to get a drive that writes to discs.

Answer 2

I have a NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A and I get the some problem sometimes. I could never know what the exact reason was. I know for sure that when I use a CD-RW (rewritable), it always go wrong. If you're not using this type of media, I advise you to uninstall your drive and reboot your computer. The drive wil be detected again and after a click or two in the dialog box that appears afterwards, it will be re-installed again with "fresh" drivers (firmware).

Answer 3

YEH THE DISK IS BLANK AND THE COMPUTER CANT READ A CD IF THERE IS NOTHING TO READ if your trying to copy something thats a diffrent question

Answer 4

Um...its blank!? Windows won't open an empty CD, you have to drag and drop files, or burn it with Nero or something before it will work

Answer 5

make sure you have a cd burner if not it won't recognize a blank cd

Answer 6

It's blank, there is nothing to detect.

Answer 7

First of all does it have a CDRW drive? if not than thats your problem. If it does then I would suspect a bad CDROM.