install a cdrw

This all assumes the drive you are asking about is IDE/EIDE/ATAPI (40/80 pin cable - same thing hard drives hook up to...)

If you are using Windows 95 or higher, you shouldn't require a driver for Windows operation of the drive. Dos support, on the other hand, is different. Go into Control Panel and then click on Add/Remove Programs. Click the tab that says Startup Disk. This will take a number of included Windows startup files (some of which are generic dos cdrom drivers) and put them all on a bootable floppy. OAKCDROM.SYS and IDECDROM.sys or IDECD.sys have all worked for nearly any IDE CDROM for me.

SCSI CDROMS can be more tricky. Usually you have to find a driver that came with the SCSI adapter. This is less common these days.

Hope this helps,
Chris

I've noticed something about your posts. You ask questions (hundreds of them) but never give anyone points. Do you work in the IT field? If so, there's some very good manuals out there that you might want to ask your employer to purchase.

Windows should recognize the drive as a standard CD-ROM drive.
However, you may want / need to update the IDE Bus master driver for your motherboard.

In order to use the drive to record CD-R disks, you need a software package such as Nero, or Easy CD Creator.

To copy data onto CD-RW disks, you need packet writing software such as comes with either of the above programs.

Without the software, you just have another CD-ROM drive.

Chas

I want to add a comment to answer number 2. I agree with him and want to know who this user deleted is. It looks like to me that a lot of people are user deleted, like in a company or something and they use his password. I don't know. And why did user deleted answer his own question? There have been too many questions in the past and in different forums that he hasn't given points and or replies too.
I THINK THAT I WOULD SPEAK FOR SOME OF THE USERS OF THIS TECH PAGE OUT THERE AND ASK USERDELETED WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. ARE YOU FOR REAL OR ARE THERE MANY OF YOU.
Please don't keep us in the dark anymore.
Thank you.

Another comment on "userdeleted". I was once "userdeleted" after using the forum for many months. Tech Republic's response was that I was not properly logged in when I submitted my answer. I am still not sure how you can submit an answer if you aren't logged in??
PS: I was Accepted (a rarity), but of course my credit went to, you guessed it "userdeleted"

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