XP Compatibility Issue

[sailorlion]

I just have a couple quick questions. My CD-R and DVD-ROM drive drivers
have been corrupted. Those drives uses XP's default drivers found on disc 1
of XP's installation discs. Unfortunately, I misplaced my XP discs, however
my dad has a seperate XP installation disc (different offical registration
number). My questions are:

1.) If I use my dad's installation disc would it completely re-install
Windows in favor of the new serial numbers?

2.) Or could I just reinstall those drivers from that installation disc
without reinstalling Windows?

Thank You,

-PG

 

[RonK]

Go into Device Manager and right click each cd drive then unintall or
remove.
restart the computer and XP will re-install the drives.