XP will not explore a CD, goes to desktop

[atco]

Hello all,

My first post after spending hours searching for a solution to this problem, but I came up with nothing, I am hoping someone here can help.

My PC is running XP Pro and has 3 hard drives (C, D and F) and my DVD/CD RW drive was E.

I burned a DVD last night and after the burn finished the computer unexpectedly shut down (I used Nero for the burn, which was successfully done).

It rebooted but when I went to check the disk I clicked on E and then Explore and all I got was the desktop. Right clicking to show properties also showed the DVD as empty. I could not open the DVD either. However the disk contained pictures and when I autoplayed it, it displayed a slideshow of the images.

I tried the Disk on my laptop and it works just fine.

I tried other CDs and DVDs and all had the same problem, trying to explore the disk or do anything with drive E resulted in either the desktop appearing or nothing happening.

I changed the drive letter to G and everything worked perfectly I could explore, read and write.

Obviously something has screwed up in windows can anyone tell me how to fix this so I can re-assign E to my DVD drive?

I hate having unresolved problems !!

Thanks

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Well, what happens if you reassign it back to E - does the problem come back?

[atco]

Yes it does.

Basically I cannot assign E to my CD drive at all.

When I plugged in my Compact Flash card reader though it was assigned E and that worked perfectly...........just the CD drive will not work (I tried 2 different CD drives and both had the same problem)