How to make a RW CD-ROM work?

I am running win XP-Pro.
Everytime I reboot a message pops up stating.
Your CD recording divice has been disable
as it will cause windows to become unstable.
Or something much like that.

How can I get my CD-ROM to let me copy thing to a disk?

I have try three different makes and everytime it comes up with “there is no disk in”.

I even try to d/l new drivers and nothing will work for me.

I am tryint to copy some pictures and a few files on to some disk to clean up some space.

Hope someone can help?

Thanks for any help I can get,
Willie