Originally posted here by sickyourIT
this is more of a hardware question than a security question, but since i'm a n00b and couldn't find a more appropriate forum, here it is (i'm sure you guys will neg the hell out of me for this, and most of you tend to do)

One of my users has a win 2k box that cannot for the life of it load the driver for the CD-Rom. I've reinstalled the driver several times, and i can't seem to get it to work. It loads up in the Bios, and windows can recognize, but no driver. Any ideas?
If windows recognises your drive why do you need the driver? Are you sure the drive isn't broken? Any Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP version can use your cd without any need for a driver to be installed (if it's an IDE or SCSI drive that is).

I had a cd drive once, windows saw a cdrom drive but none of the cd's I put in there where readable. It turned out to be broken and after a replacement everything worked fine again.