Combo Drive will read audio CD's - Will not burn them.

[Aurora Borealis]

I have a CD/DVD ROM combo drive. Lately, when I try to burn a CD it will go as far as to 'initialize' the burn, then it fails and ejects the disc tray. I thought it may have been the disc, but I've tried several more and still have the same problem. In iTunes it gives me an 'unknown error', in Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 it gives me this text:

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Sense: 04  ASC: 09  ASCQ: 00 (Command 2A)
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Px.dll: 2.7.17.500
PxAFS.DLL: 1.0.0.1
pxdrv.dll: 1.1.63.0
PxMas.dll: 2.7.17.500
PxSFS.DLL: 2.7.17.500
PxWave.dll: 2.7.17.500
PXWMA.dll: 1.0.0.3

It will read audio CD's and also DVD's. The driver is up to date as far as I know and Windows says it is fully operational. Any ideas what may be causing the problem? Here is my basic computer info:

Windows XP, Home Edition, Version 2002, SP2
Mobile AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+
2.21 GHz, 512 MB RAM

[patio]

How old is this drive ? ?
In many units different lasers are used for reading and writing...in other words it would be doing what yours is reading but not writing.
New burners can be had now for around 40 bucks shipped...i prefer newegg as an online source...

[Aurora Borealis]

How old is this drive ? ?
In many units different lasers are used for reading and writing...in other words it would be doing what yours is reading but not writing.
New burners can be had now for around 40 bucks shipped...i prefer newegg as an online source...

It's not old, maybe a few years. I've never had this problem up until a few weeks ago. The more detailed specifications can be found here (expand 'specifications'): http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Notebooks&subcat=M-Series&model=M6811

[patio]

Try it in another machine...if it does the same thing it needs replaced.