at textmode, sometimes it crawls to slowww...... I use cdrw to 2nd partition to test and have had problems of late with cdrw's, they need a full erase after every use now, even new ones? I think the Plextor is dying..............because I get this "redundency error" or something like that, and the install is cancelled at the 39min mark. Any ideas on this? EDIT Ah......new Plextor DVD burner did the trick......fixed