That's it people, I had enough! And Yeh, I'm posting a new thread again already, but this is for the sake of a thousand other people aswell. There has been countless unsolved threads across the net about the: "The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block", AND, "An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation" messages begin found side by side much of the time. Thousands are having these error messages appearing in there event viewers, largely in common with attempted DVD reads in friggin DVD Drives, like in my case also. No one seems to know the problem, unless it does turn out to be a corrupt Drive or scratched DVD, which often seems rare throughout the various threads ¬_¬ Is there really a solution to this? Or is this some sort of physical drawback due to the methods of the computers basic operation in conjunction with DVD technology?! I'm sure many would LOVE to know, so if anyone has a holy answer they will be forever praised! Thankyou! ^_^ Btw, as for my issue, I've already gone over mine right here on this forum with no answer to be found: http://miataru.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/32201.html Again, Thanks for your time an knowledge, and for the record there's no sarcasm in that statement.

DVD drives sure dropped in $$$$, maybe to much. Leon Wisnensky The Hot Dog Vending Pimp

lol! I hope your not proposing they dropped in price because the manufacturers and there research fellas realised that the standard use of technology doesn't equate with typical DVD Reading on an IDE based system, not that I can picture it working on SATA or SCSI or something crazie anyway. We need something new, we keep advancing in small pieces, we need something full proof, another enigma machine, hopefuly not created via a war. No more 0's and 1's! We need like... not even fibre optic motherboards, we need like multiplex varying frequency modulators with high speed frapper cables that can make friggin data transfer like it's... really fast! Ya see what I mean? But as I was saying, there is no answer with our current stage of technology as it is, my bizare highly unlikely betting ^_^ And if someone says it's some atapi.sys driver error all along then I ain't buying it! Darn I'm good at making a ramble. Renamon, If You Lose I'm Going To Be Very Vexed...

Plextor released a sata dvd drive. I'm sure the issues revovle around DirectX, and Direct Draw ASPI layer ACPI drivers SP2.... Drives keep dropping, but how far can they go? http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/dvd4.htm just 740 nanometers separate one track from the next (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter). Draw your own conclusions. Leon Wisnensky The Hot Dog Vending Pimp

What I was wondering is why cd rom's and burners are topping out at 52x and dvd rom's haven't passed the 16x yet. Would I be true in saying that DVD burners "at this current time and construction" won't be passing the 16x burning speed? I almost believe some errors cannot be solved easily as you have different manufactures for motherboards, chipsets, IDE devices such as the DVD rom and your operating system. Trying to get all of these components to work flawlessly is a hit and miss. We are just lucky to see standardization between components. With such a wide range of components and operating systems I believe there will be some issues that cannot be solved, or only solved by changing components and such. I'm good at rambeling on too. If anyone understands what i'm sayin then I won't feel so lonely. :) ASUS A7V8X AMD XP 2700+ 2.17ghz 768mb ddr 2700 nVidia 128mb FX 5200 WD 80gb SE DVD R/RW

My best guess is DVD data is so tightly compacted on the same size CD diameter we can't make it go fast enough without creating.. errors... yet there already is plenty of them ¬_¬ I don't know the technology behind DVD burning so I'm probably wrong. And I spose your right about the variety of manuracturers making thing there's a little different to create unqieness or something. With the depth XP Pro is compared to DOS, it's obviously got plenty more loopholes to possibly suffer. Nice thinking Chad ^_^ Bottom Line, Some DVD Burners suck on some systems and is prone to errors, so watch out if yur gonna get one. Dunno about you, but I think I'll buy a Giant Hard Drive in my newly opened IDE slot, instead of burning all my files. Think carefuly people, Thanks for the help ^_^ *DiamondMax Plus 10 6B300R0 seems darn good for Content, Price and Perhaps Quality? ^_^* Renamon, If You Lose I'm Going To Be Very Vexed...

Only one thing to remember, Hard drives can fail or be wiped out by many different problems. Virus's, power surges, age, accidental deletion, act of god! lol In the right environments cdr's and dvd r's can last our lifetimes. So if you have some personal or critical files, or even a collection of files you like don't trust a hard drive. ASUS A7V8X AMD XP 2700+ 2.17ghz 768mb ddr 2700 nVidia 128mb FX 5200 WD 80gb SE DVD R/RW