I've recently started having trouble with my Pioneer 106s Slot in drive.

I have had it working fine for about 5 months, today it has started giving me read errors due to I/O device error and i cant run any programs from the drive as i get Not a Valid Win32 application.

I installed my new liteon 40125s writer yesterday and set the dvd drive to Master and dvd writer as slave on secondary IDE

any ideas why?

anyone had this problem, i've also been told the slot in drives are a lot easier to damage too.