CD-RW: Artec 32x12x48 CD-RW (WRA-WA48)

[GhostFace]

Hi I was wondering if anybody knew where I could d/l the drivers for this drive:

CD-RW: Artec 32x12x48 CD-RW (WRA-WA48)

My friend is having a hard time fixing it and windows seems to be asking for his drivers but he doesn't have any other CD-Rom to try and use.

Any help is appreciated.

[NooNoo]

Is this an internal drive? If so, it doesn't need drivers, it uses the same drivers the hard drives use.

He may be lacking burning software...or he may have other issues, could you describe the problem in detail please?

Would also need to know the windows version and pc make and model.

[GhostFace]

(12:46:28 AM): yah im going to have AH60's dad look at my **** soon
(12:46:31 AM): cuz it's ****ed
(12:46:37 AM): what'd u do man u fuxd it up
(12:47:56 AM): well..
(12:48:03 AM): it's a long story, but ill take the time
(12:48:22 AM): a while ago i took my parents 16x DVD rom from their computer, and gave them some ******* 8x CDRom cuz they dont know the different
(12:48:39 AM): and then when i reformatted and installed XP on their system, they needed at least a 16x CDRom to do it
(12:49:00 AM): so when i was going to give them back their DVD rom, i accidentally gave them my CD-RW for a moment to install XP
(12:49:14 AM): then i put my CDRW back in my PC, and their DVD in their system
(12:49:22 AM): and boom, now my **** is just not working
(12:49:30 AM): it shows up in the Device Manager
(12:49:42 AM): but the driver is in a different format or some **** and i cant install it
(12:49:51 AM): and since i dont have a CD-Rom, i cant reformat or anything
(12:51:41 AM): sounds like a pickle

Ok heres what he told one of my friends and how it happened.


These are his Specs.

WinXp
Motherboard: DFI K7 DDR
CPU: AMD Athlon XP2000+
RAM: 256MB Corsair PC2100 DDR, 256MB Corsair PC2700 DDR
HDD: Western Digital 40GB 5400RPM
V/C: GF3 Ti200
S/C: VIA Onboard Audio
PSU: Generic 300W PSU (came with case)
CD-RW: Artec 32x12x48 CD-RW (WRA-WA48)
Monitor: 19" CTX CRT
Keyboard/Mouse: Microsoft Internet Keyboard, Logitech Basic Optical

[confus-ed]

Is this an internal drive? If so, it doesn't need drivers, it uses the same drivers the hard drives use.

He may be lacking burning software...or he may have other issues...

Mmmm so its still that !

My best guess, is that some software somewhere has grabbed the drive letter assignment & windoze is now, as it & I often am just plain ... confus-ed !

But I'm confus-ed by this

windows seems to be asking for his drivers

... errr just when is it asking for drivers ? ... because as Noo quite correctly states it doesn't need any !

Or are we just saying it shows in device manager but won't 'appear' in my computer ? (& in which case what does 'disk management' have to say about it ? Right click my computer, 'manage', you get an MMC snap in pop up, entitled 'disk management', is it listed there or not ??)

[Garak]

Tried removing the actual device driver from device manager and letting it redetect? Sounds like some confusion case to me, just as NooNoo and Confus-ed have stated, CDRW's don't need drivers, just appliations that allow them to burn CD's.