Lets start with the dvd drive. As the topic says she's been acting slutty lately. When using Nero to try and burn a CD it fails every time at 6% and i get a "power calibration error." When it comes to putting a DVD or DVDR into the drive, it wont even recognize that its in there. Personally i have no idea whats goin on or if the drive is just fucked. I've tried reinstalling the drivers a couple of times, but no luck at all.

I'm thinking of pulling the drive out and opening its case to clean the laser off to see if it makes a difference. I could also crack and buy a new one for dirt cheap, but id lik to get this one working. Any other suggestions as to what i could do to try and fix it?

Now for the next part... I need to get the damn burner working so I can burn my iso of Windows Vista and get it up and running. I've also decided that i want to instal some Linux on my other harddrive. I'm looking for recommendations as to what version I should go with. I've never really used it on a home computer before, but I figure i might as well, as I'm using it more and more at the uni.

Thanks for any help and suggestions.

Nate

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The DISTRIBUTION you should you depends on how far up the scale you rank yourself as a power user. I fully recommend you try a "live distribution" like Knoppix before deciding on an install.

Some distributions that some members have used here:
Fedora (good desktop replacement (I've never used))
Ubuntu (good beginners curve)
Knoppix (live cd, Debian based)
Slackware (Power user heaven)

There are more....

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