>   > I had Ulead running in the back ground and that disabled
>   > the DVD drive!!!!!!! Dang Windows is trash!!!!
>   >
>   > I thought I had a hardware failure. No error message!! No
>   > nothing! --
>   > Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
>
> Amen, brother!  Preach it!  Shout it to the heavens!
>
> No, I am _not_ being sarcastic. I want to encourage you in the
> strongest way I can concieve: you are telling the truth.
>
> Les Nordman
Paul & Group -

This is an old problem dating back to win 95 days - all I can suggest
is connecting a USB drive or have you tried that already Paul ? Was
there ever a 64 - bit version of XP ? If so the code may be better.
I still set up the odd linux installation for relatives etc & have
pretty well  retired from  windoze troubleshooting.

Fly & build good -

-- 
Bryan In England


I only use my Windows computer for one or two programs.
I understand Vista is worse. Consequently I refuse to buy Vista.

XP will not burn a DVD anyway and I don't think the DVD drive
in my notebook will burn DVD's if I had an XP program that could do it.
I am thinking of getting a external DVD burner as I need backups.
Backups on CD's are too tedious.

UNIX/Linux was multi-user multi-tasking from the get go
back in 1972. My 3 year old Linux Fedora 5 does a great job of burning DVD's.
No telling what Fedora 8 or Ubuntu will do.

I am thinking of buying a Dell notebook with Ubuntu pre installed.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Paul, any good websites for a guy to read up on Linux etc.. I'd like to
learn more about it..

Jarrett

O yea. Just put Linux in Google and you will be swamped :)
If you want to try it they have cheap DVD's that you can boot Linux from.
When you take the DVD out it reboots Windows off your hard disk.