DVD Drive Called 'CD Drive' In My Computer

I guess this would be the best place for this.

On my XP PC, in my computer, my DVD drive is called a 'CD Drive' in my computer. It will not read DVD-/+ R's anymore.

The DVD Drive I'm using is the 'Maxtor 6L200M0'.

I've tried searching for driver updates using Windows Live, but that did not work. If someone could find the driver I need (if that is the problem), then I'd be willing to try that.

I read somewhere that the NVidia IDE Driver could have messed it up, but I do not have the NVidia IDE Driver installed on my computer.

I've also tried the obvious 'restart the computer', and of course that didn't work.

If anyone could help I would be very thankful. Like I said, I can't do anything with DVDs and it will not allow me to burn anything. When I put in a blank DVD-R it says 0kb free of 0kb. I desperately need to free up space on my computer, but I can't just delete the files.

 

you could try USB to back up files.as for your drive its probably a driver issue.

 

I can't USB the files because it's 400gb worth of files I need to backup.

 

USB hard drives come in sizes up to 1TB probably more.

 

Got nought to do with the name cd appearing that's what windows calls all drives,the name can be changed,by the way the 'Maxtor 6L200M0' is a hard drive not a dvd drive,well that's all google shows,never heard of a maxtor dvd drive as they only make hard drives

EDIT:Just re read your post now your not making sense how are you going to backup 400gb of data to single layer dvd's,that's a lot of dvd's around 100 of them ,it'd be better to do as xbox said get a larger hdd better make it two of them as a single backup even in dvd media is not a smart move,i've been there so have others nothing is more frustrating than loosing data when you only had one backup of it

external drives are up to 2TB that's 5 times more space than the amount of data you want to backup

 

Well see it's videos I want to back up, and I would prefer to have them on DVDs. I don't really want to spend a big chunk of money on an HDD.

Oh and sorry, I put the wrong drive. The actual DVD drive is called TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552L.

Sorry about the confusion :/

 

Clean the lens of the dvd drive if that fails you could try updating firmware,personally i'd buy a new drive either liteon or pioneer something with lightscribe as well as having cyberlink 9 or 10 as well as nero 10 as extra's that are included if possible

As for DVD media you'll need good quality like verbatim, of 500 or so dvd's i've burn't only 1 ever had trouble being burned to