CD Drive Issue - "Error 4550"

[Dumela]

I use Itunes as my music player/cd burner and recently my computer has been unable to burn cds no matter what program I use. It starts burning and then about 30 seconds in to it I can hear the disc slow down and it says that it has failed because of an error 4550.

does anyone know what i can do to fix my drive and burn cds?

thanks in advance...

[GX1_Man]

Goodle shows nothing helpful:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=error+4550

How old is the drive? It could just be dead.

[street1 (RIP)]

The below site gives you some how tos.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321641

[street1 (RIP)]

Download  Guided Help is a self executing program you can download and run.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/