For some reason Acer made the drive but do not have the drivers. I tried to get a copy of the recovery disk unsuccessful. Can someone point me in the right direction
Your question is listed under the Aspire T180 category heading. If this is the correct model number of your pc, you can re-install your DVD/CD drive by following the instruction listed below from the Acer website.
Follow the steps below to reinstall an optical drive:
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/0000/Acer/AspireE360/AspireE360faq48.shtml
You will see the Aspire T180 listed if you click on the "Show Part Numbers" link directly below Frequently Asked Questions.
Go to http://www.driverguide.com/ you may be able to find and download the driver you need and the instructions on how to install it.
Click on Start, Run, and type regedit and press Enter
Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Control
Class
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.
Upper Filters
Lower Filters
Upper Filters.bak
Lower Filters.bak
If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete
After deleting the keys, close the registry editor
Reboot your computer
Open My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone. or
you might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd then plug them back this should activate the found new hardware wizard or
you might have to uninstall then restart your computer then reinstall your DVD/CD then reinstall the driver for this device
if your computer came with a motherboard disk the drivers could be on it
click start control panel administrive tools computer management device manager scroll down cd dvdrom drives if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark?! or a red x right click you will need to update the driver or
select properties general troubleshoot, select driver click to reinstall drivers click update driver
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i loss softwae of dvd/cd rewritable drive,the model:dh-16w1p can you help me reinstall the driver?
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