CD driver corrupt or missing?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?)

See Alex Nichol's fix at:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
(second paragraph under Problems.)
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Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Chris Davis" <chrisdavis.bt@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>I recently reinstalled windows XP, and for some reason, I cannot install
>the
> generic windows XP CD driver. I have a Samsung CDRW SW-240B and a Samsung
> DVD-ROM SD-616T. Neither of them come with a specific driver, they just
> use
> the default windows one.
> The driver I need does come up in add new hardware wizard as being
> compatible, but when I try and install it, I get the error message:
>
> "Driver is corrupt or missing".
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> C Davis
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev (More info?)

Thanks very much for your help. That fix fixed it.
Unfortunately I couldn't replace the files that sfc found were missing
because without the drivers, it wouldn't say the cd drives existed.

Thanks for your help any way.


"Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
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> See Alex Nichol's fix at:
> http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
> (second paragraph under Problems.)
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
> www.coribright.com
>
> "Chris Davis" <chrisdavis.bt@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:eNOX0d9oEHA.3424@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >I recently reinstalled windows XP, and for some reason, I cannot install
> >the
> > generic windows XP CD driver. I have a Samsung CDRW SW-240B and a
Samsung
> > DVD-ROM SD-616T. Neither of them come with a specific driver, they just
> > use
> > the default windows one.
> > The driver I need does come up in add new hardware wizard as being
> > compatible, but when I try and install it, I get the error message:
> >
> > "Driver is corrupt or missing".
> >
> > Any help would be most appreciated.
> >
> > C Davis
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>