Is it IDE? You might want to make sure the burners set as master and not CS or slave, also sometimes burners don't like sharing an IDE channel with anything.
Does the burner work, just the hard drive led has gone postal?
And what program would that be Bud.....After trying everything else I finally ran a diag. program on it which said the drive was damaged.
I stomped them into small enough peices for the vacum to pick up.