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August 31, 2005 at 06:20 AM
derek

DVD/CDRW combo not working

by derek . Updated 20 years, 9 months ago

When I boot up my laptop I get the following error message;

Devices or applications disabled
‘CD recording software’ will cause windows to become unstable.
Windows has prevented these drivers from loading.

Please, please, please can someone point me in the right direction of a website where I can download drivers for my CDRW/DVD combo drive. My original drivers have become corrupt and as a result Windows XP will not allow them to load. This then prevents me from reading or writing files from/to the drive.

I have the original drivers on my OE CD that came with the laptop, but because the operating system wont load the drivers I am then unable to re-install the drivers from the OE CD.

I have also networked my laptop to another PC and tried re-installing the drivers using the CD drive on the network but again no success.

The laptop is an Advent 7048 P4 2.8GHz

The CDRW/DVD combo drive is a QSI SBW242B

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