windows crashes

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Hi everyone,
I have a problem with windows reconizing my DVD-R. I will start fron
the begining so you can best help me with my problem. I took off the
cover to the tower eairlier today to blow all the dust out with canned
air, and I just bought a new 16x DVD+R internal drive. I am running a
HP desktop that has been wiped out of all manufacturers original
software and drivers. I have reloaded windows on it 10 times. I have
enough knowlege to troubleshoot, configure, and fix my own PC but never
had a problem such as this. After the computer was cleaned I installed
the drive in the {SLAVE} port where I previously removed my CD-ROM
drive. I make sure that I am hooked up right and reasemble my PC. I
boot up and windows automatically reconizes my new drive and installs
drives. After it was finished it requested I reboot so I did, and
waited for it to restart. I didnt notice any problems during the boot
process\or BIOS errors and figuered my install was a success and wanted
to start burning. My programs reconized the drive, and the disk began to
burn at an extermly slow rate. I have multible burners and know there
speeds and when I have an error. It seems to have froze when it reached
a certian part of the disk\file. I stop the burn process with task
manager and rebooted my PC. After repeating these steps 3 times I
decided to replace the drives I removed and atleast salvage what I can
then reload windows. But after My PC was back to it's original state,
(before I switched my ROM drives) It started crashing on me. There were
no previous problems with my OS (Windows XP Pro) before this and there
were no problems with my external DVD_WRITER (another burner) or any of
my programs that I use to burn DVD's. And now even with my PC back to
it's original hardware state, I am getting startup, rebooting,
freezing, Automatically shuts off, and when I burn a DVD now (Which I
havent been able to get a complete burn since this incident) it will
freeze or stick and the only way to get a response is to reboot. I am
up to date with updates, viruses, trojen hunter, spyware doctor, and
normally defrag my HD once a month. Pirated copy of Win XP, w\SP2 as
well as win GEnuine hacked, the burn software I was using when drives
froze was Roxio 7.5 and the DVD burer is an external USB 2.0
Toshiba-SD-R5372 DVD+RW+R+16x\read\write= If you have any suggestions,
or just know what I did wrong please respond!
And______ Thanks for taking the time to help me_!
If you need any encoding advice ask me!==TerrorByte
Sorry about posting this thread twice((HARDWARE)

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terrorbyte