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How can I tell if my CD Drive has died? My PC recognises that a blank CD has been placed in the tray but when I make an audio CD from MP3 tracks and Nero has finished and said it is done the CD is still blank. Is there any way I can test it?

Well are you burning to the File Recorder?

To verify drag and drop files to a blank CDRW and select the option to "Write these files to CD". This will allow you to verify whether the CD writer is working properly or not.

Just tried burning with WMP and it worked fine. Don`t know what`s wrong with Nero ?

As I mentioned, you are using the File Recorder. You need to select the CD writer as the burning device.

What do you mean by File Recorder ? I open the Folder then highlight the tracks to burn then drag them onto the left hand side where it converts the MP3 track before I burn them.

I mean that Nero has been configured to write to an image file rather than directly to a CD. There are options to select the CD drive as the drive to burn to rather than an image file. I can`t remember the option but it is there.