dvd/cd-rom drivers!!

[Patrick]

i just use a system disk on my pc. for some reason there were no drivers for my dvd/cd-rom drive it is a nec dvd rw nd-2500a. i went to nec.com and it said w/ windows xp you dont need any drivers for it, but my pc says the drivers for the cd drive are missing. can someone please give me te link to download the drivers for win xp home?

[Freakitchen]

Optical drives do not need drivers. Whereabouts are you being told otherwise?

[Patrick]

i went to device manager then clicked on the cd/dvd rom drives then the drive that has the yellow "!" on it and then right click then properties and under device stats it says

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

[Patrick]

forgot to add this but i know the drive still works because i was able to use the system disk when i bought the new harddrive.

[LeftyAce]

Try this: right click on the ! icon and UNINSTALL the cd drive. Then reboot, and windows will see it as "new hardware" and should configure it with the proper drivers.

[glc]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553