The Windows 2000 theory is wrong. Now I've just finished installing it and the service pack 4 and guess what? It does the same thing.
"CRC failed. File corrupt."
This is very strange because this messes the already messed up situation even more. My Laptop started doing the same thing after like 24 hours during which I was updating the system with the Windows Critical Updates. Although I'm not sure, this might be caused by a certain Update(s). I thought of buying 38 CDs so after every critical update I could test the Burner but that would take me 3 - 4 hours.
Oh I nearly forgot about another very important fact. I burnt only one (*.RAR) file onto a CD-R and after extracting I found out that the file was perfectly fine, no CRC errors or Corrupt messages but usually what used to happen was when I burned this file with many other files to a CD it used to (and still does) show me that the file is corrupt.
You'd better try this to and see if it works. Just burn a single file that would usually be corrupt in the CDs that you've already burnt and see if it works. I really don't know where to start!
I'm confused. This MIGHT, with a big "M", be a hardware problem, software problem or both together.