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CD Rom drive on laptop no longer recognized?
I have a Compac notebook computer running Windows XP sp3. I don't use the disk drive often but today I put a dvd in the drive and the drive powered up as it should but it wasn't recognised by the computer. I thought the dvd might be faulty so I tried another cd and still got the same problem.
I looked in the device manager and I noticed that the cd-rom/ dvd drive doesn't even show up on the list. Could it be that the driver got erased? I have a driver recovery cd for my computer but thats obviously useless since the drive doesn't work.
Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?
Thank you.
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If you can’t find the right drivers manually I would recommend just getting a software program that can do it for you. There is a program I use which will find drivers for just about all hardware devices. The best part is it takes a snapshot of your system specifications and matches the right driver to go with it. Perform a free driver scan at:
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
The needed drivers is in the firmware, it is no long separate.
Open the Device Manager, and look for the designation, "CD-ROM", click on the plus sign, next to it, it will then open a menu. Click on the device, and chose proprieties. You can then remove the driver, you then reboot, and windows will install the proper drivers from the firmware.