[RaceBannon]

No, I had a Hewlit Packerd, less than 1.5 years old, and there were no patches for it that matched the WIN2000/ NT technology! Neither did my read/write software match, either!

The CD did work, but to do anything else with it, that was my problem. You're right, the CD did read, but all the cd read/write stuff is what died, I should have thought that through before I answered! :-)

[philetus]

I have the CD Writer (HP) out of my old (2 yrs)HP Pavilion in a puter I built myself.It would work as a reader only.

I went on the net and searched until I found a driver that would work.

Now it`s a CDRW again.