Thanks for your help bblank, some very interesting food for thought there. I do have Nero and strangely enough when I installed my CDR/W it used to nag me about the CDR/W bing on the wrong IDE channel although it still worked. I swapped them around to stop the nagging but I can't remember which way around I put it. I won't get a chance to open it until the weekend, is there anyway i can tell which is on the priamry and which is on the secondary by looking at the device manager? They are listed ASUS DVD Rom with TEAC CDR below it?? Does this mean the DVD is on the primary? I also have a second hard drive but I can't remember where I put that without opening it.
Can you post a link to any of those forums you found, I couldnt find any useful ones. Thanks again guys for all your help and suggestions.