CD writer disappears during/after burning - returns on reboot

Just as a quick PS. During the time I was writing the message, the CD writer
came back in device manager (no problems shown) and my computer - I checked
just after I sent the post - but it can't read a disk "please insert a disk
into drive E".
It will work fine after a reboot (until I try and burn something!).

"Hillneerg" wrote:

Win Me Pentium lll 866 128 ram built-in graphics and sound chip AC97
I have just started having an odd problem. When burning an SVCD (or anything
else) with my Magix Movies 2 CD and DVD program (which I have used for the
last year without problems), it has started doing odd things (I am
transferring wmv files to disk). It will say "no burner found" when reaching
the "write to disk stage. As I say, it has been working fine up to two days
ago (in fact I had burned over a dozen disks the previous few days).
Sometimes it will burn one and then, when trying to burn a second disk, the
CD burner disappears and it reports "no burning device). It's gone from the
device manager screen! (it was in "my computer" before I tried burning - and
no problems shown in device mamnager).
It comes back if I reboot.
I can't figure what is causing this. I have tried System Restore to a time
without problems but that doesn't fix it. I have also scanned for a virus or
spyware - again clear. I have also tried reinstalling the program. Again, no
results.
The only strange thing that has happened is that when after first did this
(well it just stopped working with no error report) , I went to msconfig (I
was going to check the startup folder in case anything had slipped in there)
and it reported "variables found in system.ini or autoexec.bat. Tansferring
to registry". I don't know why or what happened but presume that that is
where the problem originated. It in't a message I have had before
Can anyone help me to sort this out please?
Thanks,
Hillneerg