text: Two choices come to mind:\n\n1) You are putting the disks in upside down,,,\n2) The disks are really not blank... Are they perhaps "used" cd's?  If so, you can't re-write to them unless they are marked CDRW and you first "erase" them!\n\nFinally... \nCan you READ any CD's?  If not, then the drive is broken and should be replaced... Although reading does not necessarily mean it will also write, if it can't read then it DEFINITELY can't write!