I have recently been having an issue where the cdroms on my system have an exclemation point through them and an error code 39 indicating a driver problem, however when I check the driver it is corect. uninstalling and reinstalling just return the exclemation point. I have swapped an old raid drive that is 8 months behind and the drives work great. I want to do a fresh install of the os as I am changing MB’s and CPU but I need to copy about 4gig’s of Documents & Pictures I have purchasd a DVD recorder to do this but I am sure I need the original drive with the data I want to back-up / save to have the cdrom issue fixed first. I also do not want to loose the data due to reinstall, I can not use SFc to repair critical winXP file as the cd drives are not accessable. is the a way to use safe mode with cdrom support to reinstall critical XP file or to install and back-up the data I need to save. or to install the recovery console to use at boot up???? e-mail me with any questions wino460@sbcglobal.net