all my copying software will not recognise any burners but are present upto date and working fine. they will all play dvd's and cd's. also the pc can no longer read hidden sectors on the hard drive, is this all conected. please help as im total stuck as what to do next.
Have you looked for a BIOS update for your computer? Is your OS up to date? Have you installed any new drivers, hardware?
thanks for the reply, ive finaly fixed the problem, it seems i had a virus (rootkit) that avg could not detect and the aim of this virus is to block the path of any software to the burners. i found this out on http://www.gmer.net/ and used the online scan to find it. it then recomended i use an anti-virus program called avasta and this found another 4 trojens in file extentions. when i deleted all the infections everything went back to normal.
