Problem with cd burner

[Mayan]

Hi Guys

My friends cd burner (Ricoh MP7083a) stopped functioning today while he was burning a cd (using Hotburn). He never had any problems with it until today. The tray can open and close, but it doesn't read or write cd's anymore..it just keeps blinking it's light on and off and when you click on the drive in 'My Computer', an error message pops up saying that:

F:\ is not accessible.
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error

He tried rebooting a few times, disconnecting the drive from the PC and uninstalling it from Windows, then installing it again, he also ran a virus scan (NAV 2002) of his PC but nothing turned up. There are no conflicts when I checked Device manager. And it still has the same problem.
Any of you guys know if there is a way to fix this problem or is the burner stuffed?

Don't know if this will help, but he has an AMD TBird 1.3ghz, MSI motherboard (not sure what model), 256 mb sdram, Ricoh MP7083a. He is currently running Win2k.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[stool]

Sounds as if the drive has crapped out. If you or he has access to another box, try installing it there and see if it works. If not, it is probably dead. If that's the case, he should check for any remaining warranty.

[Mayan]

hmmm...yeah, I am going to bring it over to my place tomorrow and put it into my PC (I have the same burner in mine, so if his is still ok, it should work without any probs in my PC).

I am hoping it will still be ok (even tho it does seem it's crapped out) cos my friend wasn't stuffing around with it, it just stuffed up halfway through a burn and now it won't work at all.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.