Pavilion dv6275us DVD issues (XP rollback)

You may think the title says it all but this is pretty seriously messed up, I rolled back to xp a few months ago and at the time no serious problems (still cant find the drivers for the SM bus controller though).

I went to burn a dvd yesterday to find it wouldn't, figured it was a problem with the dvd disc itself, brought a second pack still no luck, it reads cd's and dvd's and will burn cd's too but wont even think about burning a dvd, it is a dvd burner and when a blank dvd disc is inserted and you try to access the drive you get an I/O device error. I've tried the my computer/manage/ata controllers trick and that didnt work any one got any ideas or experience with this problem?
Thanks
J
PS also dont knwo if this is anything to do with it but xp is detecting two drives in my laptop, one DVD-ram the other cd only..... cant get rid of either they automatically come back

 

oh also theres abit of a time limit on this, im going back to work in the middle east in a day or two and need to burn all my porn to dvds..... my sanity is at sake here guys.

 

so........... no one?

 

ok 86 views no answers, im guessing that means im ****ed right?

 

IMO sounds like hardware issues with the drive. just to rule out driver/software issues...Have you tried restoing Vista or re-installing XP??