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[RedDwarf]

I'm at my In-laws trying to help them with a computer problem. They're using Windows XP and their cd-roms are found but not installed due to a corrupt cd driver. I've been searching, but can't find a location to download a generic cd driver. Anyone have any ideas? I want to get out of here already.

 

[darscot]

I always just fall back on an old win 98 or 95 boot disk easily locatable online.

 

[firex]

device manager -> "remove" the cd drive and let the hardware wizard "find" it, then try autofinding a driver for it, or pick one from a list if it can't autofind a driver.

 

[gblues]

The CD-ROM driver is built into the OS. If you rip it out of device manager, Windows should re-install it when you reboot and not ask you for a disk. If Windows can't find the driver, you are going to have to extract the necessary files off the Windows CD (use msconfig).

Nathan

 

[RedDwarf]

Thanks for the advice. The problem was related to Easy CD Creator being installed. I found a page on the Windows XP support site that had some registry entries to remove and voila, it installed the drives. Who knows.