ill try rthat horndude but to reinstall would just be nero the drive is plug and play/. Gog i need to switch to linux bad this crap is really pissing me off. I can play game off cds but i cant burn
ya sounds like your drive isn't working. can you burn or read anything off of it? try copying some files through windows explorer and see if that works just to check. if it does work, another method would be to load the .iso in a emulator drive (i think alcohol 120 does this) and then use a cd copy program (i use roxio) to copy it to a cd.
Do you have more than 1 burner installed in that puter? If you do, you may just need to go to the burner properties in nero and choose the right one. It sounds like nero is looking a another burner in your system. Otherewise, you may have a hardware conflict in windows or the CDRW needs to be placed in the neerest roundfile!!