>
> >   > 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.