Check with the drive manufacturer to see if they have drivers for XP.
Boot into Safe Mode, remove the drivers, then boot Windows normally and
install the new drivers when hardware is recognized. If you can't do
that either (freezes before Windows boots) then try to install the new
drivers in Safe Mode after removing the old ones. Might work.
Rob
Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
Excuse me and I know I asked for help, but in the 17 years+ I have been into
computing, I have never had any OS (Windows, Linux or Mac - except in
pre-Windows 98 days) not take an optical drive. Maybe to add burning options a
patch might be needed, but never not accepted at all.
How would removing Ubuntu fix Windows which is on a seperate partition. And it
is a big deal and upheaval to remove it and then reinstall it. I use Ubuntu 90
percent of the time, but this is bugging me.
Not only that it works in XP safe mode, loads and is working fine aparently.
Any further thoughts, please.
Simon1
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