Hi thx for the welcome I was reading this board already for some time before i made my first post^^

BTC has a good and friendly supporter in this forum but I'm not sure if he (Marco) is still active here, since his last post is already a few months or so ago.

Now that I lost my warranty I can't bring it back to the shop and have them send my rewriter in for check/repair?

The 1004IM has been working fine with SP2, also with Nero 5.5 for about a month. I used Win2k before that and always with nero 5.5. It wasnt the first time that I extracted an image from DVD to my harddisk on this new XP system and that makes me wonder why this happened

Where can I find the latest DOS firmware and the MTK tool to flash the drive? I've read something important about a /M switch that need to be used with the mtkflash tool, otherwise the drive won't work at all. And then it would be hard to revive it, is that right? So there is some more or less risk with that tool too :|