dell inspiron 3000 does not detect Liteon CD RW/DVD Combo Drive
The following is my system specification.
1997 Dell Inspiron 3000
Pentium MMX
144 MB Ram
4GB HDD
It has a Removable CD Drive and comes with an externally attached floppy drive.
Operating System: Windows 2000, Service Pack 4.
I purchased Liteon SlimType Combo DVD/CD RW with the following specification.
24X/12X/24X CD-RW and 8X DVD-ROM LSC-24081MX External Slim Combo Drive - USB 2.0 / 1.1
Please note that the laptop does not have a USB port.
I have to use a USB to PS2 Adaptor to connect a USB Device.
However that does not seem to be a problem as I had no issue connecting and using a Microsoft USB Mouse.
The Problem
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I connected the Combo DVD/CD RW to the laptop and started my system.
However Windows 2000 fails to detect it.
No extra drive appears in my computer.
I installed the Nero ver 5.0 CD Burning software but it fails to detect the device.The only device it detects in its display panel is the default Image Recorder.
I found out that this device requires USB Mass Storage Device Driver which is bundled with Win2k
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/liteon-24081/
However as per this article....
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;265002
Windows 2000 and Windows 98 do not support multiple logical unit number (LUN) universal serial bus (USB) storage devices
Could this be the problem ?
feedback appreciated.
Thanks in advance
