DVD-RW ProblemFollow

The dammned thing won't recognize blank dvd media. I've tried 2 different brands, both DVD-R and DVD-RW, and it won't read it. Lookin in My Computer, it says DVD-RW Drive but when you put the media in it changes and says CD-RW Drive, and that there is 0 available on the disk (also 0 total).

I've tried upating the firmware and driver to no avail. Has anyone else come across this problem? My googling hasn't helped, when I right click on the drive and go to properties, the Recording tab is there (microsoft article on a similar subject). I also made sure that DMA is enabled (another post I found on google). Not sure what else to try.

Edit: It's a LITE-ON 16X DVD±R DVD Burner ATAPI/E-IDE Model SOHW-1693S.

Edited, Wed May 10 09:24:51 2006 by Wint

Just using the windows built in. I'm trying to burn data to the DVD because it's too much for a CD. I've tried both types of DVD media, niether work.

I tried with CDBurnerXPPro and it says there's no media either.

I found a post saying that Windows Media Player can bork the cd drive, so I'm going to try removing that when I get home from work.

It's frustrating, because the burner has worked fine with the media I have, it's just quit all of a sudden.

Edited, Wed May 10 12:30:49 2006 by Wint

Ok, well the solution was that Windows XP can't recognize blank DVD media. I mis-read the CDBurnerXPPro layout that said how much space was left on the disc. All is well again. Just feel a little stupid is all