OMG, i finally fixed it with the tin foil fix between the pins, it took 2 hours and alot of swearing to do it but i finally did it

I was working with a toshiba satellite 1800-s254 with a sd-c2502,...

What i think is even funnier is elitist turds like you beating around the bush instead of telling people WHY it happened and HOW to fix it.

And also, i just came across this forum, and forgive me...

second hand HDD smoking......... great
next they'll have a bill to were you cant smoke near your comp

;p lol

Your drive is set to PIO mode, get into your device manager, go to IDE, select secondary, switch to DMA if available, then UNINSTALL and REBOOT your sys, should reinstall and be in DMA mode

Also,...

yes, this stick was improperly formatted (it may be a fat system and you or someone had to have formatted it under fat32, or vice versa) Ive seen this happen a million and 2 times, send it back to...

what happened was that it must have been priorly formatted in the wrong format (ala FAT File sys being formatted to FAT32) or vice versa, send it to the manu of the stick and they MUST replace it...

hey, right click the drive, go to the RECORDING tab, and click "Enable CD recording on this drive"... or something to that effect, my PD NEC DVD RW did the same thing and i couldnt explain it, so i...