JTM Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Come home tonight, put CD in and the lappy isnt recognising it or the drive. Seems its somehow uninstalled the driver itself??? Cant format or use windows cd cos the drive doesnt work and clicking update driver via the net comes up with nothing. Any ideas|? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 It should work even without any drivers if it's Windows XP. So it seems a bit odd. What does it say in device manager? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted October 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 In the list of devices it shows up with the yellow ! mark. Then in the properties its saying Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) ??????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 Try removing the hardware from device manager and then just restarting. Windows should find the driver again and reinstall the drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted October 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Tried that. After restarting i get the little yellow boxes by the system tray as if it is aout to install. Then I go back todevice manager and have exactly the same as I put up there ^^^^^^^^ ??????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Wait, are you saying that you cant format the drive using XP.. like when you put the CD in the drive, turn on the laptop and try and install XP ? If it wont work there, its likely that the drive is actually dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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