text: My suggestion is... get a new disk drive... burner can buy for free after rebates... watch adds in paper (usually office max and office depot or bestbuy). Next. You can try system restore... you don't need to back anything up anyways, because you can still restore it to the future if it doesn't fix it. If it doesn't work you can just go back to restore, and click undo last restore point. Other than that... make sure you got no viruses, and download spybot search and destroy. Make sure it's cleaned out. Defrag, disk cleanup, virus check, spyware/adware check. If all else fails, when you buy the new drive, format and re-install windows. If it still doesn't work right, buy a new one... a mac should keep from future problems (but more expensive and less practicle). Good Luck!