Well, I guess I basically fixed Aunt Ann's computer

Mom called her, and got a list of what was wrong:

1) The A:\ drive, which they had recently installed, wasn't working.

2) They installed a CD Burner, and their old CD drive was no longer working.

3) They couldn't install Roadrunner.

I don't see the problem here. I mean, most software lately comes out on CD, and files worth sharing can either be emailed or are too large for a floppy. But whatever. Secondly, I'll bet the Burner can read faster than their old drive, by simple viture of being newer, so what's the big deal there? Finally, I don't know anything about Roadrunner, and troubleshooting software you've never used without it there is.... difficult?

So I put a disk in the A:\ drive, and it reads it just fine. Problem solved.

I can't find any reference or anything to the CD drive that isn't working in the Device Manager or anywhere, so I check the physical connection. There isn't one. Whoever installed the burner just connected it, but didn't connect the old one. Nice. So I moved the primary connector to the older drive (it's on top), and the secondary one to the burner. Booted, and it read both fine. Problem solved.

Man, one of these days, I'll work on *actual* computer problems, not connecting CD drives that aren't connected and running a spyware/adware scanner.

Posts to come:
*Work
*DDR last night