I just recently re-installed my other burner which is an HP+9500b. The one I replaced was a Philips (unsure of model #). The only successful burn I had made was a bad copy of spiderman with the Philips 2 weeks ago. The reason I replaced the Philips was because VCDEasy would no longer read it and would give me errors like "cannot setup device 0.1.0"(which is my burner). Now that error no longer happens to me with the HP, but other errors happen like "Please insert a blank disk" while the disk is empty. The Disks I am using are 700MB 80 Minute Memorex CD-RW. The Disks I am using are always empty! Also I can no longer erase my CD-RW for some reason. I just recently Re-installed VCD Easy also. I can't get VCD easy to work or Nero (just once with the philips but only that once) or CDRWin.