CD not recognized but DVD is

I have an HP DV9700 Entertainment Notebook.  Have always had use of CD/DVD R/RW.  I went to burn a CD and it would just click in the optical drive.  I diagnosed the problem and it said no CD was in the drive.  I put several other blank cd's in and nothing.  I put in a store bought cd and nothing.  I put in a blank DVD and it was recognized.  Put in a store bought dvd and that was also recognized.
i've dont everything I have found to be recommended.  I have removed Itunes, that didnt help so I reinstalled still nothing.  I unistalled the cd/dvd driver and reinstalled, nothing.  I've run every diagnostic and it says everything is fine.
I swore it used to say cd/dvd rw drive, now it only says dvd rw drive.  Any help is appreciated because this computer is useless to me if I cant burn cds.
Thank you in advance for any help.

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