Wow, thanks guys for the info. Wanted to let each know that I can't get my cd-rom to work---beats all I've ever seen. It is a Pacific Digital CD-RW reader writer which showed up in Device Manager as a PCD CDRW. After a crash from the ripper virus, a kids virus and a trojan, I used mcafee rescue disk [which immediately ridded the computer of viruses but also seemed to have removed the cd from DM. I removed the drive, replaced it and rebooted. It came up on boot-up screen as a Yamaha, which is the original name of the drive. I have used the drive since then but couldn't get it to reconize media or to burn. I contacted Yamaha and they said they no longer support the drive, but it was sold to Pacific Digital and they probably used other drivers. I have the burner disks that came with the burner but can't get it to read them. I checked the bios and it says auto or I could change it to other names such as Atapia, but I'm not sure. I've fidded with autoexec. bat [7 years experiance] and config.sys, but can't get it to work. Maybe you guys have an idea here. When I purchased the Belkin usb 2.0 card from Wal-marts it came with no cd nor floppy. I just installed it in a slot and Win 98se reconized it right away. I'll remove, and re-install it into another slot after removing the drivers to see if that works. My thanks to each of you. Keleah