Cannot Detect My USB CD-ROM

[Yue]

Dear all,

I have a Thinkpad X31 with a USB-DVD/CD-ROM
When I plug in the power-cord, the CD-ROM itself is working fine and
When I connect the USB to the laptop, the laptop says detecting the
USB plugged in.
But When I open "My Computer", No CD-ROM / G:\ Drive is deteced.

I just remembered that I seemed to delete the whole DOS file in the C:
Drive accidentally and I suspect that drive software was deleted
together (something like AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS?). Does the
failure to detect CD-ROM have something to do with this?

What should I do now?

Thank you very much!

Happy New Year!

yue

 

[Rich Barry]

Yue, rt click MyComputer>select Properties>Hardware>Device Manager>USB
Controllers. rt click on each on and choose Uninstall. When they are all
uninstalled restart
and let WinXP reinstall them. Then try the drive again.

 

[Yue]

Thank you very much, Rich.

I tried that and when the hardware is reinstalled again, the wizard
says cannot locate the driver, which may be corrupted or missing. I
guess the driver software is deleted by me... but I am wondering when
I first installed it, the driver software was not in my computer
either, why at that time would work...?

 

[Yue]

I went to the device manager again and clicked on the installed
hardware cdrom and clicked on the properties and see that saying
microsoft provides the driver and it is located in Windows
\system32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys.

So what happened to the drivers...hmmmmmm