no it doesent in xp either. as for the media no. he had a whole stack that was fine before. ...and i'm not sure if it only reads cd's or dvd's. it may be that it only reads dvd's. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-co/attachments/20071121/e8175f04/attachment.htm