Firstly Happy New Year to one and all.
Which motherboard/cpu/memory combination are you using?
When installing XP, was it a fresh install from a clean HDD or an upgrade from 9x or ME. After you installed XP did you carry out any upgrades to Nero, are you running any other burning utilities or have been on your machine? Or even several DVD player programmes?
One of the later ATA100 IDE cables I have actually has written on it at the long end ‘System’, at the other extreme ‘Master Device 0’, and in the middle ‘Slave Device 1’. No mention of this on the other cables or motherboard manuals. Anyone else seen this or have any idea how important this would be?