I hope that someone can give me some help or advice. When I am in the process of copying files to a CDR disc, in the middle of the burn, Windows 98 fails to recognize the drive and I get a crap-load of error messages. The copy process aborts. I have the patch for the program "Sony HotBurn" version 1.2.1 . I have tried to do a disc copy as well, but to no avail. The same thing happens. Is it the USB driver? When the above mentioned happens, I re-boot my system, Windows recognizes the drive, I try again for the burn process, and it works. This is very frustrating. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for listening.