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Okay, thanks Nev for your help and advice. I'm going to see what can be done, and I'll keep you posted on how it goes.

Thanks, Nev-- Yes, I think you're right. The writer is a seperate drive from the CD ROM. I had a rotten feeling that damaged CD might have been the culprit. Well, I've learned a valuable lesson: always check a CD before using it. I never thought I would have to worry about a CD that comes with a brand-new product, though (in this case, my new printer). Do you think it would do any good to complain to the manufacturer?

I couldn't find optional updates in windows updates. Why can't find anything on this computer?! Anyway, my computer is an HP Pavilion 7845 (desktop),and the cd writer is CD Writer Plus. Just let me know if you need memory or drive ifo. Thanks for your patience-- guess I'm more clueless than I thought!! LOL.

Hi-- went into device manager and uninstalled the CD/DVD Rom driver and rebooted but nothing came up to say it detected the driver, so now it's uninstalled and it still just blinks amber. How do I install it again?

:confused:Hi all--- I have Windows XP Professional and have been able to burn CD's with no problem whatsoever. That is, up until a month ago when I installed a new printer (HP Deskjet). I had to install the printer manually because the instruction CD that came with it had two big cross-shaped cracks in it (which I didn't notice it until after several attempts) and I'm wondering if that did some damage to the writer, or could it be because both the writer and the printer are on the same drive? All I know is, whenever I put in a blank CD to burn, the light flashes green for a few seconds, then flashes amber and it comes up on screen "Error--driver is not ready". I've tried several good quality CD's, and unplugging (but not disconnecting) the printer. I don't really want to disconnect the printer because it was a pain to install. By the way I can still play CD's fine in the CD-ROM, nothing wrong there. Can anyone please give me some help?:o Thanks!!

Hi--- Just want to say that this looks like a great site and thanks for letting me join. Well, to begin with I live in Canada and I'm not clueless about everything, just everything connected to computers :). I know that I will appreciate your help in the future, and just maybe I can help someone else too. Again, thanks and take care.