Cantello

Hi all! Yesterday I was burning several DVDs (video with additional content in DVDROM folder if that's of any importance) and all of a sudden my drive did no longer recognise any discs at all. This happened right after I tried to burn a double-layer DVD (all discs from Verbatim, not the very cheap stuff). Is it possible that suddenly the drive went broke? It's a SATA drive, three or four years old. I have uninstalled the SPTD driver that was previously installed, without any changes. Any hints?