Cd RW Drive Recgonized but when cd is in tray it says 0 bytes

eveyrtime i looked up this topic anywhere on the internet. I only found people who had problems with burning. I have no problems with burning. How this problem started i have no idea. But one day out of no where when i wasnt touching the computer. It rebooted on its own and after that whenever i put a cd in the tray it says its has 0 bytes. Its recognizes the drive but it wont spin the cd. For example i wanted to install windows xp. I put the cd in and it doesnt bring up the install windows xp screen. I have to physically click on the drive and go into the setup.exe file and run it from there. It happens with any cd I put in the tray. But what is weird is that when i run it on my virtual machine it runs fine and i dont have to click the setup.exe file. I have a OPtiarc DCD RW AD-7580S and a ACER laptop Aspire 5732C, Pentium Dual Core CPU, T4400 2.20 GHZ. Ive tried like every google link and every recomendation and nothing worked. If anyone has any suggestions please help me out cause this its getting mad annoying.

 

Have you checked to see if auto run/auto play is enabled on the drive?

 

Hi

Are you the only use on this machine with Administrative rights?

Windows xp, hmm protected driver mode maybe??, could be wrong, if xp believes there is an issue it may cause system to reboot - if this option is configured to do so..

Try looking at the properities on the drive first, follow Novice suggestion

 

Along with the other good suggestions, a couple of things you might try:

Run this Microsoft Fix-it (among other things, it clears the Upper and Lower filters in the registry).

Can you boot to the drive? If so, then that indicates that the drive is working as far as Windows is concerned, and that some 3rd-party program may be the source of the problem.

And, as far as the reboot, go into Advanced System Properties, Startup and Recovery Settings, and make sure 'Automatically restart' is not selected, and that 'Small memory dump' is selected under 'Write debugging information'.

 

I got windows 7 not xp. And I unchecked Automatically restart. I tried the microsoft fix as well. Nothing has worked but thank you anyway.

 

Have you tried booting to a disk, as well as the suggestions offered by Novice and necro61?