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Originally posted by Wild Peach
Well, see, what do I know?!!! could have sworn you do need some sort of software installed with your drives, I had to install one when I upgraded my CD-ROM to CD/DVD-ROM, could that not theoretically be the problem or is this a learning process for me? |
Almost all CD drives do not require software drivers installed on the computer to run. The drives have a chip in that tells the computer everything it needs to know in order to use the drive to read media; writing to media is a whole different thing. Look at it this way, if CD drives needed software drivers to work, how would you install a
current operating system? However, some drives may be like video cards. In that they don't work fully until you install drivers for them but still work out of the box. It is a possibility, but I have yet to come across a drive that needed software drivers. I'm not trying to be overly critical and I'm not out to prove you wrong just to make myself look good, I'm only trying to inform... Good luck.
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