dvd drive not recognized

[nihil]

I believe that I have encountered this before, I sounds as if your DVD drivers have been deleted or corrupted. Roxio seems to do that sometimes.

You need DVD software and the latest drivers. Check the Compaq support site (it is now a part of HP) and get the drivers from there. Only if you have no luck there should you try the Sony site.

Windows would normally have drivers so you might need to do a repair install.

I would expect to see two .sys files and a .dll



EDIT: OK, You say it is a Compaq with an Intel PIII 933Mhz processor? That is old, and almost certainly predates Windows XP (my P4 1.7Ghz shipped with Windows ME). I suspect that the other possibility (if not probability) is that the drive is just not supported by XP.

This may help:

http://www.opendrivers.com/freedownl...-download.html

It is dated 2005/6 and may well get round that problem.

Your BIOS will only see one device because it is only taking up one IDE slot. XP probably only recognises it as a generic CD device.