Am I just dumb?

[gaijindavid]

I cannot seem to find a driver for my DVD-ROM. (Hopefully this is such an easy thing that you will all be laughing at me when you reply.) It's a Toshiba SDR60121633. Domo arigatou for anyone willing to help a clueless old fogey like myself avoid buying a new friggin computer simply because he can't burn DVDs anymore. lease:

 

[Aegis]

have you tried to go into your control panel, and adding the hardware manually? That works sometimes. If that doesnt work i'd go into the comps guts and switch the slaves and masters around.

 

[chompy]

Doesn't windows XP take care of that?
I've installed various operating systems from scratch and my DVD-RW drive never needed drivers. When it decided to break on me (slowed to a crawl) was to go into device manager (in XP) and go to the corresponding IDE/ATA/ATAPI controller, click properties and, if it wasn't in DMA mode, uninstalling it there and then and rebooting twice.

 

[gaijindavid]

perhaps my less than genuine copy of windows is getting in the way. i cannot update anything officially.

 

[Denamic]

If it's XP, you can. As long as you don't install the genuine advantage thing from the auto updater.

 

[ccwder]

I ran across this if you're still looking for a driver. Please make sure to virus scan it etc as I use a mac and have never used the file.

As chompy said I don't think you would normally have to install a driver with xp but if it's an old enough drive then perhaps it does need one hmm.

Good Luck!

 

[gaijindavid]

perhaps it isn't even a driver problem after all. that's the error message i get when trying to burn discs but i am able to play them. (for someone who spends hours a day online, i know remarkably little about computers, so thanks for the help attempts.)

 

[chompy]

Check this out: http://www.onthegosoft.com/dma_setting_nt.htm

 

[gaijindavid]

thank you. i appreciate the efforts.