Recent content by steelebob

Thanx for all the help, and Happy New Year.

Did that. Why am I nervous, if one looks at the ms site for compatible hardware there are no DVD drives, makes me think twice. When I look at updated for drives, many don't mention vista.

I just don't see "vista compatible" when I check out those brand names . My older tochiba doesn't have an upgraded driver( and doesn't look like they are going to bother trying to do so ) and vista doesn't recognize it when I tried to install vista, which make think I should be careful. I was...

After doing google searches for hours about this, I found that there is a real lack of information about vista compatible dvd-r and the little there is confusing or out and out misinformation, esp. after reading the user reviews of these products. Am I asking too much to get one for under $45...

Want to: reformat old drive do clean install use Windows Easy Transfer using portable hd PROBLEM: "paranoid" to do it wrong-- read to darn much on line NEED: step by step of the first few steps just to get me started. ALSO are there check boxes to save previous (Program...