My combo DVD drive will burn a CD, but when I put in a blank DVD it just opens the drawer and says to insert a disc. Windows XP.

The windows might be corrupted. You could try editing the windows registry. here are the steps:

In order to delete upper and lower filters you're going to have to edit the registry. The usual cautions apply. If the registry is not edited properly your whole system can crash.

1) Close all open programs
2) Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT and press Enter
3) Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
* SYSTEM
* CurrentControlSet
* Control
* Class
* {4D36E965-E325-11CE-
BFC1-08002BE10318}

4) This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.

* UpperFilters
* LowerFilters
* UpperFilters.bak
* LowerFilters.bak

5) If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete
6) After deleting the keys, close the Registry Editor
7) Reboot your computer
8) Open My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone.

last option, you could try installing imgburn. here's the download link: http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

If nothing happens, your dvd drive is bad.

Good Luck,

Ryan

This is a combo drive

It will support
1. CD reading & burning (Blank CDR and CDRW)
2. DVD reading only.


We cannot use a combo drive to burn DVD.

make sure the drive is getting enough power
one bad/faulty lead can cause a computer lots of problems
make sure all leads that connect to the dvd drive are seated properly including the electrical lead or just replace them there probably old/faulty
hope this helps

If you have the sony CD RW DVD ROM then you can't burn the data in a blank DVD.

Because your Configuration is :
Read : CD / DVD
Write : CD

This means you have a combo drive. But to burn a DVD you should have DVD RW.

What are you using to burn cds?
Try using the free burning version at http://www.deepburner.com

You have to pre-select type of media in your burning program (CD or DVD) before adding files and commencing burning procedure.

DVD / CD-RW is usually a a combo drive
DVD PLAYER with CD BURNER

DVD-RW is a dvd rewritable drive

ITs a dvd rom drive. It will not burn blank dvds
in order to burn, it has to cd-r/cd-rw/dvd-r/dvd-rw. If a drive cannot write to a blank disc, it will eject it. Rom drives read only (Read Only Memory), Combo drives- burn cd's only read dvd's, and super drives both read and write to cds and dvds.

what brand , model number, and operating system you are using,,,

1.Please cheack weather the DVD meadia is DVD R/W combo drive, 2.Then only the DVD media will be Burn or write tO the Blank dvd media & then check weather the blank cd is a dvd r/w cd.