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by kiyakay

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I have a CD-RW8432X CD Burner, but I do not have the right drivers installed. Can you help?

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by thechas

Cd and CD-RW drives do not need drivers for Windows.

You do need to have the correct IDE bus drivers for the PC / motherboard / chipset installed.

If you do not know who's motherboard you have, start out with the motherboard identifier tools at www.motherboards.org
or www.wimsbios.com

Then, download and install the latest drivers from the mfg.

Now, ALL CD-RW drives need SOFTWARE to record CD's. The 2 main suppliers are Roxio (Easy CD Creator) and Ahead (Nero Burn)

If your drive did not come with a software CD, then you need to purchase a package from your favorite web dealer or retailer.

Their are trial versions available for download from both Roxio and Ahead.

If you have Windows XP, their is built in CD-burning software. However, you need to install a few Windows updates in order for the software to function and your drive to work.

In fact, for XP, you need to install specific updates from both Microsoft, and Roxio in order so that Windows will recognize your drive, and the software will function.

Chas

by guruofdos

Some drives, especially AOpen and Delta drives do need a driver disk, or more specifically a firmware patch, to allow the drives to work correctly with some CD burner programmes.

We use NTI CD-Maker Pro, which contains all the firmware patches for the most common drives but this does rely on the correct IDE drivers. You need IDE drivers that return extended manufacturers data from the IDE device. To check you are using the correct IDE drivers, look under the Disk drives entry in Device Mangler. If the hard disks are just listed as Generic Type xx then you do not have the correct IDE driver. The correct driver will read the firmware on the drive (hard disk or CD-ROM) and provide manufacturer information and device capabilities. NTI CDMaker-Pro uses this information to get extended data from the CDRW and configure itself accordingly.

by slacker

I bought a brand name CD-RW drive and it came with Easy CD Creator bundled. However... Roxio did not yet support the new drive. I had to wait until Roxio published a compatible driver for my drive. It took three months. I recomend you check backwith Roxio. They have an e-mail announcement system that will alert you when they have your driver...

by gernotlg

hi, I usually go to drivers.com
or try to find a site from the manufacturer of the CDRW. They might have some drivers on there.

Drivers.com will want you to become a member(i think) but its free and theres drivers for just about every bit of hardware.

gernot.

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