So about a month ago my notebook pc (HP Pavilion dv6000) with Vista started having limited connectivity problems. After several hours of messing around changing all sorts of WiFi settings, talking to my internet provider, and renewing my warranty with HP I finally had to reboot my hardrive to factory settings which seems to have solved the issue. However, after trying to reinstall the programs I had saved to some discs I found that my PC was no longer reading the content of the discs. It said they were blank. I tried to watch a standard dvd and this proved successful so I thought maybe the problem was with the program or the disc. I tried this disc on another computer in the house. The cd was blank. I though "OK, maybe I just wrote the program wrong. Let me try another disc." So I tried opening another disc on the other computer. The program was on it and installed fine. So I tried it on my own pc. It was blank. I tried this same disc on the other computer again. It was blank. It appears that my computer is re-writing writable cd's even though these particular cd's are not supposed to be re-writable and I have never installed any program to rewrite un-rewritable cd's. I have never encountered this kind of problem before and the tech support at HP is crap even with a renewed warranty; they'll just tell me to reboot my hardrive again. Screw that, I'll live with not being able to use blank cd's. Also, I haven't tried writing cd's and playing them on another pc yet since I'm currently out of cd's so I don't know whether or not I can do that either. Anyone have any ideas what else I can do? I really don't want to reboot my system again.