SONY COMBO CANT READ OR WRITE CD OR DVD

It was not designed to do that, that model will record and read CDs and read DVDs but will only write CDRs or CDRWs.

im having sony CRX320EE combo drive. it can read cd but cant read dvd. plz help

may be it is only CD rom...

You have a combo - an optical drive that is a cd writer and a dvd reader. You can't write dvd's with it.

There are dozens of free perfect functioning  burning software. the one that i use is Totally Free Burner 3: as the name says it's free, extremely small ( just 1 MB compared to 100MB for Nero), fast and very easy to use. get it from here http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/Audio-CD-DVD-Burning/Totally-Free-Burner.shtml

the XP driver really should work appropriately. I might assume that the drive is damaged (which happens to me frequently with older DVD drives).

Hi,
do you have software/program that supports DVD.
Try a different DVD/Movie/Disk or alternative.
Also install a program, such as Nero which will give you physical characteristics of the drive.
Finally go to device manager, and remove or uninstall the device, reboot the computer and setup again. This can sometimes remedy the problem.
ensure that the drive is set as Master/Slave. if on the same Bus/IDE channel as a hard-drive. set as master/slave opposite to what the hard-drive is setup as.
Hope this helps.
Mike @ Compurepair.

my combo drive also not reading dvd :(

this is a common problem
sony handycam older versions does not read or support the 8cm rw dvd disks
so sorry

Can you please explain more the problem so i can help you? CD-R is the same as CD-ROM!!!! best regards AMINE