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ye well what I did I bought new cables as the old ones were abit worn but didn't change anything :S no don't think it has got an esata port, I will give it another go tonight when I get back from work and try re-installing everything again but its just weird how it worked with windows 7 but not my new laptop which is on windows 8 (which isn't as good as windows 7 imo)

sata + usb cable and then separate power source to mains. don't understand its like it starts to burn goes up to 4x speed and then drops back down to 0 and just sits there.

hi, just had a new laptop and installed imgburn onto it (running windows 8) and every time I go to burn an image it gets stuck on writing layer 0 on 0% because the writing speed goes up and then comes back down to 0 and just sits there. I've updated imgburn, done all updates on windows 8 and its definatly not my ihas drive as I tried burning an image on a friends windows 7 comp and it worked perfectly. at a loose end now, any help at all would be much appreciated. thanks