DR4 - A. Does not read disks

My DR4 burner started working ok burning onto Ritek,Bulkpaq and Data Safe media. After 8 weeks its stopped writing to this media. When i try and read a previously burnt disk the green light at the front of the drive keeps flashing and locks up.
Its then displays a message of " No disk found". If i insert an original DVD or music CD all is okay.
Firmware is still at 2.30. Software Nero,Pinnacle to burn with. WinDVD and Power DVD to view with.
Any ideas!

I have just installed a DR4-A in my system
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
512 MB Ram
Gigabyte GN7N400V Pro 2 Mainboard
40GB Hardrive
Have no problem in reading discs but it will not identify a CD-R disc in the drive when using the drag and drop utility that comes with Windows XP.
When using device manager and checking properties of the drive, under volume info it always lists the CD-R as DVD.
Starting to rip my hair out (and not much of it left)!!!!
Any ideas or do I just have a duff drive?
J

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