Heres an interesting angle on it for you.. .I had a similar problem whenever I wanted to burn CD's the system would crash halfway rendering the CD unusable.. .I spent a fortune in CD's trying to rectify the problem.. .I reloaded windows, Refromated then reloaded windows, uninstalled then reinstalled the CD on its own and nothing worked. Then finally I removed the memory sticks and replaced them. Problem solved.. .Go figure.