I got a lappy oem loaded with xppro... I recently put Mepis on the second drive(partition)... then erased it after a short time... had to then manually get rid of GRUB... the thing that lets you choose windows partn or linux partn on booting.. Anyway... I can only run Linux live cd's from the drive... When I'm in windows and go to desktop to check out my partitions/drives... it lists my XP Windows drive... and my empty drive... and has an icon with a little picture of my cd/dvd drive... but when I click the cd/dvd icon it comes up with "empty"... o in it! It sees it there but will not play any cd's dvd's or even recognize them... after a brief chuggung... it goes to nothing there. Again I have no XP CD... it came oem... but I "do" have a recovery disc which would work fine if the cd drive would access it. I'm thinking I have to reinstall a driver... which I'd "have to have" already in my system... because otherwise there's no way to get it read. Anyone know if I can find a/any driver from my system and re-install it... if that is a possible rerason for my trouble?? Thanks for any ideas. Stocky

Stocky, SWAG, sounds to me like Mepis changed your default setting while it was active and got rid of the XP required driver. HTH. Ed in Texas.