missing drivers for dvd-cdrw drive

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After a recent hard drive reformat I lost the drivers for
my LGE4480b drive. I lost the install disk too. The
drivers on the LGE driver page don't actually install the
drive until the drive is hooked up. If I hook up the
drive I get error messages and windows tries to restart.
How do I get the drivers for this drive?
A recent Email to LGE says this
The driver for the drive is built into the OS. If you
are at a dos level, you will need to MS-DOS driver from
any of our drives. It doesn't matter what model. But you
will also need to have a formatted disk that will
autolaunch the entire install process of the OS, and that
is something you will need from Microsoft. Thanks.

Yeah Im lost please help!

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http://www.lgeus.com/Product/CD/GCC_4480B.asp

Do you have the CD-ROM drive hooked up to the same IDE cable as the
harddrive?

You may just have to hook up the CD-ROM, boot off your Windows XP CD,
and do a Repair operation.

Nathan McNulty

Rich Barry wrote:

> Dan, are you connecting the drive properly? Red Stripe on Ribbon Cable
> aligned with Pin 1 on the Motherboard and Drive Connector. How old is this
> drive? I looked on LGE's website and couldnt find it.
> "Dan D" <the_super_grover@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:2b94201c4686b$062c1c40$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>After a recent hard drive reformat I lost the drivers for
>>my LGE4480b drive. I lost the install disk too. The
>>drivers on the LGE driver page don't actually install the
>>drive until the drive is hooked up. If I hook up the
>>drive I get error messages and windows tries to restart.
>>How do I get the drivers for this drive?
>>A recent Email to LGE says this
>> The driver for the drive is built into the OS. If you
>>are at a dos level, you will need to MS-DOS driver from
>>any of our drives. It doesn't matter what model. But you
>>will also need to have a formatted disk that will
>>autolaunch the entire install process of the OS, and that
>>is something you will need from Microsoft. Thanks.
>>
>>Yeah Im lost please help!
>>
>>
>
>
>

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Dan, try connecting the drive as Master to the Secondary IDE Channel.
Leave the cd drive disconnected
temporarily.
"Dan D" <the_super_grover@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:2cc7501c46915$cd6c8f10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>
> The drive is about a year old. The cables are connected
> correctly... the dvd drive is set to slave on and inline
> with a cd drive which is set to master.
>
> Thanks for the idea of booting off the XP disk.
>
> PS. this drive worked perfectly before the reformat.