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In my experience with Ulead video editing products, Ulead products are not a good benchmark for a drive. I had problems with reading a .vob file from a local drive. A USB 2 drive is fast enough for video editing. It is on par with a firewire drive. It is quite common in the video editing industry t...

VCDs arent "formatted". Its just a directory structure. You can always just open the main video.dat file in media player if you have the mpeg codec installed to play dvds. You can get any of the demo programs for dvds, such as windvd, and use the codec after the trial period is expired. Media player...

You can get a demo version of adobe premier at www.adobe.com and try that out. Its a great program with a good selection of filters to play with. The version available for download is always a full version behind what they sell, but you get a good feel for the software. It has a good capture option ...

I have always used claddvd and flaskmpeg to rip and encode. I have not had many problems with flask, and never any problems with claddvd. You can find both programs at www.divx-digest.com.

You could try going to add-remove programs in the control panel. There is a section in there for windows components. Remove it, and then put your windows xp cd in the drive and click add. Then re-install from the cd.
I dont have windows installed to verify, but it should be something close to that.