WHen I try to burn a cd it says connect a burner

In my limited experience cd burning software isn't very stable and causes software conflicts with Windows; uninstalling doesn't help very much because burning software tends to displace some Windows components that sort of gets lost in the process.

If you really know what you are doing it might be possible to repair Windows but at my level I find formatting and reloading everything is the best option.

I find Nero to be the greatest offender.
Windows Media Player should be able to burn a cd; it might be long-winded but it is fairly reliable...

maybe it need a cleaning, use a cd lens cleaner try to clean first the drive, then play an audio cd, if you can play now try to burn again.

Put the CD from yesterday into the CD-burner, and open the CD with Windows Media Player. Does it open?

check another software like nero ,burn 4 free etc. and try burning again.
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If you are running nero or Roxio then disable it first. Roxio takes over the burning capabilities exclusively. You will also have to reset the device to allow WINDOWS to burn CD's. Also make note that amediplayer burns WMA files that some players won't read.

does it read the cd ? make sure that the IDE / SATA port are connected properly / or even usb cable if you use external cd burner...

drive dosent apear

when i try to burn discs i get message connect burner, my laptop is compatible to do all this

Sounds like the CD burner has gone out. First try doing a hardware search to see if it finds snd recognizes the CD burner. If not it will need to be replaced. Keep in mind that the drive may still read CD's fine without the ability to burn them.

first off go to system information and find details of cd drive and write them down.
next click start,right click my computer,select properties,click hardware,click device manager.locate cd drive and delete.close all windows and restart.on restart system will detect new device and reinstall and more importly reconfigure.this should do the trick