I've had problems with the 9100 series, lots of problems with the 8x00 series, but they are both working now with XP's built in drivers.
As you've probably seen, HP doesn't support any of their old CD-RW drives in XP.
If it doesn't work with the stock XP drivers, then go to windows update and download the cd-burner patch. It's one of the first patches released.
If you still can't get the burner to work, then you're probably out of luck.
Don't bother with the software that came with the burners. Download Ahead's Nero or CloneCD as your burning applications.
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