okay, well its a little more than that. okay, i've got XP Pro, 40 X cd rom, HP CDRW. i installed Roxio Platinum 5 and installed the patch for XP. When i rebooted, i got a blue screen. i had to restart and use LKGC. i removed Roxio and installed again. still the same problem. also, it never installed the patch properly meaning it never updated to Roxio 5.1. I removed Roxio again, rebooted and now XP doesn't recognize my CD ROM and CDRW. it just shows up in device manager with exclamation points. i've already uninstalled both, did a search for new hardware,but no luck. I have to order the CD for the HP CDRW that has the drivers on it. I know i've seen problems on here similar to this. any advice?