I upgraded a fairly old PC (350 MHz) from Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro.
After the installation, I noticed that the CDROM Drive had disappeared. When
I went into the Hardware Config section of My Computer, there was the yellow
exclamation mark. When I looked into the properties, the Device status reads
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be
corrupted or missing. (Code 39)." I tried uninstalling, then scanning for
hardware changes. It identifies the ATAPI 44X CDROM, but it comes up with
the exclamation mark and the same error. I cannot see the drive in my
explorer. In the driver section, all seems normal. All of the drivers ( I
think there are 4 of them) are Microsoft drivers.
The drive is working fine though. I can boot from it and the BIOS sees it
fine.
My question is how can I manually re-install the device drivers? I don't
know the brand of the CD drive, nor do I have any driver installation disks.
Even if I did, they'd probably be 6 years old, and not support XP.
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