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June 22, 2008 at 05:40 AM
joq

DVD drive not recognised or able to install in XP

by joq . Updated 18 years ago

Hi all, hope someone can help,

I just fitted a brand new laptop DVD-RW drive to a Windows XP laptop. However, this drive is not recognised in the BIOS and XP can’t install it. Device manager says a driver is not installed and the drive is unrecognised. Using Windows update does not help nor does allowing the Add Hardware Wizard to connect to windows update help. I’ve re-fitted this drive and re-booted numerous times with no difference being made.

Please could someone advise what I should do?

Specs: Lite-On DS-8A1P 021C DVD-RW laptop drive
OS: XP SP2

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