Ok, so a basic synopsis is that I have a Samsung H552U DVD RW drive. I wish I'd researched it online before purchasing it because I have now found that it's a total pain in the *censored*.
Up until a few weeks ago I had Windows ME. Say what you like, but I never had any problems with it. I chose to install XP when I heard that Microsoft were dropping support for all previous OSes, and bought up a used (but legal) license.
Now I've been having issues with my DVD-RW. At first, it was just randomly preloading sections of the disk I wasn't even accessing, while I was trying to either read or write from my backup DVDs. That was fine, I just waited a few seconds for it to stop being a complete hat.
Then it picked up a new trick. It would allow me to click files, they would be of the right size, but they would contain, essentially, nothing.
Except now... I copied over a folder of pictures, and it instead placed an empty folder on the disk, then a bunch of files named after the folder, but of the correct sizes for the pictures that were in the folder.
I tried it twice more, and it did exactly the same again.
I'm a paranoid guy and I like to backup new things as I get them, just in case something happens. But this problem is driving me nuts.
I've tried an older firmware version and it did nothing, I've tried rebooting and it did nothing. Apart from buying a new DVD-RW from a company that actually knows how to make them, and apart from going back to Windows ME, what is there that I can do?
