allright it must be the hard drive is jacked or something, cause i put another hdd in there and it gave me error 13 no dash and thats what it should have done and i can fix this by slayers but my thompson doesnt read my cdrw so can i use any cd drive just to read the cdrw? get a power splitter and hook one up to cd and one to hdd and then plug the ide cable into both would it work?