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Glava · 07-31-2004, 09:41 PM

Recently I was given a fairly old Pentium 2 computer with a newish CD-RW drive by a relative. I formatted the hard drive, installed Windows XP, and noticed a strange problem. The Philips CDRW4012P drive won't read CD-RWs. I tried 12x and 24x ones, and it won't even recognize that they are in the drive. I also tried them on another CD-ROM drive already in the machine, a generic 40x reader, and the same problem occurs. I tried with both burned and blank CD-RWs, and the result is the same. Even the Disc Info window in Nero Burning Rom sees the drives as having nothing inside when a CD-RW is in them. Pressed factory CDs and CD-Rs, work fine, however. Please advise.

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Glava Betitled	MY Drive Won't Read CD-RWs Recently I was given a fairly old Pentium 2 computer with a newish CD-RW drive by a relative. I formatted the hard drive, installed Windows XP, and noticed a strange problem. The Philips CDRW4012P drive won't read CD-RWs. I tried 12x and 24x ones, and it won't even recognize that they are in the drive. I also tried them on another CD-ROM drive already in the machine, a generic 40x reader, and the same problem occurs. I tried with both burned and blank CD-RWs, and the result is the same. Even the Disc Info window in Nero Burning Rom sees the drives as having nothing inside when a CD-RW is in them. Pressed factory CDs and CD-Rs, work fine, however. Please advise.