missing drivers for dvd-cdrw drive

[Dan D]

After a recent hard drive reformat I lost the drivers for
my LGE4480b drive. I lost the install disk too. The
drivers on the LGE driver page don't actually install the
drive until the drive is hooked up. If I hook up the
drive I get error messages and windows tries to restart.
How do I get the drivers for this drive?
A recent Email to LGE says this
The driver for the drive is built into the OS. If you
are at a dos level, you will need to MS-DOS driver from
any of our drives. It doesn't matter what model. But you
will also need to have a formatted disk that will
autolaunch the entire install process of the OS, and that
is something you will need from Microsoft. Thanks.

Yeah Im lost please help!

 

[Rich Barry]

Dan, are you connecting the drive properly? Red Stripe on Ribbon Cable
aligned with Pin 1 on the Motherboard and Drive Connector. How old is this
drive? I looked on LGE's website and couldnt find it.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

http://www.lgeus.com/Product/CD/GCC_4480B.asp

Do you have the CD-ROM drive hooked up to the same IDE cable as the
harddrive?

You may just have to hook up the CD-ROM, boot off your Windows XP CD,
and do a Repair operation.

Nathan McNulty

 

[Dan D]

The drive is about a year old. The cables are connected
correctly... the dvd drive is set to slave on and inline
with a cd drive which is set to master.

Thanks for the idea of booting off the XP disk.

PS. this drive worked perfectly before the reformat.

 

[Rich Barry]

Dan, try connecting the drive as Master to the Secondary IDE Channel.
Leave the cd drive disconnected
temporarily.