Hello,
Here is how I would recover the old driver in WINDOW XP.
Open My Computer, Point the mouse cursor to the DVD-RAM drive, select, Right Mouse Click, go down along the submenu list to PROPERTIES.
Click .
Look for thumbnail HARDWARE Click, a window opens that list all the drives in your computer, Select the Matshita and press the button PROPERTIES at the bottom of the window
Select the thumbnail DRIVER
Click the button ROLLBACK DRIVER then OK.
Windows will try to restore the driver you had before you made the update.
The above solution supposes that you see a drive when you explore the computer, and that you are not talking about the FIRMWARE.If the drive is not working properly, you may not be able to see it when you click My Computer. In that case go to Desktop, Point to my computer icon, right click , select Properties and click. Select thumbnail HARDWARE then Button Device Manager. You will see a list of all the hardware. Look for DVD/CD-Rom drives,
Click the + to expand the tree. You will see your drive possibly with a
yellow exclamation point.
Select the drive, right click the mouse, choose uninstall
and validate
.
Next time you boot, Windows will attempt to reinstall (hopefully) the right driver
.
Hope it helps
Comments:
Dec 25, 2009
- Had you given the name of the laptop OEM I might have suggested to go to the OEM site to download the driver. Visiting the laptop manufacturer support website is the FIRST REASONABLE thing to do.