Hi im fairly experienced at windows etc but I have recently Installed Windows XP. I Installed it off my hard drive. After it was installed I configured all my settings etc and Im really pleased with it but when I went to begin installing programs off CD I noticed My drive Icon was not there only A: and C: - I have fiddled with my bios settings - tried all jumper combinations etc but XP is not detecting the drive. It was a LG CD Writer so I thought Id try putting my 40x Asus drive in to see if it would work then - Same problem. Im really stuck and I will be grateful if someone can point me right direction. is there a generic driver I need to download? a fix/patch - the only drivers I can find are the dos mscdex ones which arent relevant on XP.
 
Please can someone help me overcome this problem as I dont want to return to win98 ( and WIN-ME is crap )
 
Just incase its important - When I disconnnect my CD Drive from my comp windows starts incredibly fast but when I connect it as well as not detecting it there is about a 3 minute wait with just a black screen just before windows launches intop the GUI and after its laoded the splash screen stuff etc.
 
I have:
Windows XP Proffesional
Asus Motherboard with VIA Chipset
40X ASUS CDROM DRIVE - LG CD WRITER (I want the LG Writer To Work the most but possibly both?)
 
 
Anyway I've whined enough - Please let me know - thank you