I've got a Liteon 40125W CDRW Drive and I was burning a cd and it finished burning and Nero locked up and the light was permanently on the CDRW drive (It was orange, not red as when writing, and not green as in reading) and I couldn't open the drive, I left it 5 mins and it was still the same. So I Ctrl-Alt-Del and closed Nero which was 'Not Responding'.

I then restarted my PC and the drive would now open, and the cd had burned succesfully. I tried to burn another disc and Nero said that there was no disc in the drive (I'm using Datasafe 80min 48x media) so I thought the disc might be faulty so I tried another, then another until I tried about 7 and none worked.

Then I tried a Verbatim 4x CDRW and Nero said the same thing. So I then put in a data cd & an audio cd and it read both of those fine.

I then reflashed the drive with the latest firmware WS09, then restarted my pc and the problem was still there.

I decided to run 'Smartburn' to see if that saw the disc and every option said 'Unknown'.

Now I'm stuck & don't know what to do next, has anyone got any ideas?

Cheers

Moving to CDR/CDRW forum ..

I had a very similar problem with my drive but with CloneCD

http://www.cdrom-guide.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=230903

I left mine off overnight and it seemed to cure it?

Were you burning at Max?

I did burn the last disc that worked at max speed (x40), now I've tried every speed down to the lowest and it does'nt see the the media.

I've also tried the WinXp 'Copy Files To CD' and that still says there is no disc in the drive, and I uninstalled the drive in Device Manager and restarted my pc and it was re-installed automatically when Windows came back up.

I had exactly the same thing happen, looks like its had it, take it back for exchange. PS take it back to where you bought it, Lite On's customer support is zero

Some have had success with shutting off the computer, disconnecting the drive in question, rebooting the computer without the drive, shutting the PC down again, reconnecting the drive and rebooting. Sometimes the lock up requires the drive to unload. Worth a try...