I have Windows 7, I put the CD ROM into the driver, but nothing popped up, and nothing is happening. It does say however, that I need to put it in a port that is high speed? I have no idea what that means.

Oh mind you that other computers or systems are only designed for Windows XP and the Drivers that are installed on that machine are XP compartible. Now that you are using windows 7, it could be an issue that Windows 7 operating system does not recognize the device being your CD drive.. You need to go on the HP official website and look for the drivers (the whole packge ) for your computer model and check if Windows 7 operating system is compartible with the machine. Otherwise the solution is to go back to Windows XP...

Hello John,

Please confirm whether this new Hard drive is a secondary Harddrive, or this is the Primary (only) HARDDRIVE.
If it is secondary then it should work automatically as soon as you connected it through the USB Channel.
If it is primary, then after connecting the HDD, You need to put the Auto installable CD/DVD of windows 7 in the CD rom. It should detect the CD/DVD and startinstalling the windows 7.
Just follow the steps which comes your screen and it will be done.

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Why not u can install Windows 7 , but the problem may arise in installing video and audio n drivers .Don`t worry ,After installing Win 7 put the mother board CD in CD Rom and go to Device Manager and if u see any devices as warning(Unknown) ,select right click and go to " Update driver and show the path of CD Rom. it will detect the drivers from CD if not have to try with other alternative.The above will work sure.Mine is too P4 working with Windows 7

Hi I'm Rain ,
Ok follow these instructions to reboot your CD Rom drive.

1. click start then My Computer .
2. In My Computer right click the DVD/CD rom drive icon .
3. In the list , Click eject to see if the drive is being reconized .
4. If nothing happens repeat steps 1-2

Now when you get to sep 3 you will click properties .


5. In properties click Hardware .

6. In Hardware click the DVD/CD device to highlight it .

7. Click properties .

Now look to the bottom of that window to see device status .
If it says , this device is working properly .Properties .
Next click Driver . In driver you will see a list of option tabs that allows you to , Roll Back driver Update driver and Disable driver .
The other option is Driver Details.

Click Roll Back driver to restore the driver back to the state before you added the latest program . Click ok and follow the screen instructions.
If this fails , you can follow these steps to get back to Driver and chose
Disable Driver . Click ok if another window pops up.
Now what you are doing is rebooting the DVD/CD rom drive.
This will restart all the drivers that are associated with the DVD/CD rom
device .
Now follow all the steps again to get back to Driver .
Now in Driver you will need to click Enable to restart the DVD/CD rom
device . Reboot your system and try the DVD/ CD tray to see if it responds . If it still fails to respond you most likely will need to replace or service the DVD/CD Rom Hardware { the Tray } .

open my computer, right click your cd-rom drive, click open, then launch setup.

Hi,

Many older ICH7 chipset drivers as well as generic derivers has been removed from the winodws Latest Built, for you it it seems the cd/dvd rom drivers are missing.

I here give the link uploaded by me, which contains the driver for CD/DVD ROM fro windows 7, Please open device manager and manually locate the CD/DVD rom and select the .inf file to install the driver

http://rapidshare.com/files/297330669/CD_ROM_Drive.rar.html

Please leave me comment, if you need further assistance
Rnj VINODKUMAR


Rename CD-ROM Drive.txt to CD-ROM Drive.rar!

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Try the Intel package(link posted before), that's an Intel mobo.

formate ur system it will solve ur problem

Try deleting it in the device manager and then reboot your computer to see if it will detect it, then when it asks, point it to the driver.

run this file to reset the cd filters

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/XP_CD-DVD-Fix.zip

hard drives dont read cd's
does the door close?
if not close it.

1)left clik my computer
2)double clik the cd rom drive, making sure theres a disk in it.
3)right clik on my computer
device manager
look for a yellow exclamation point or red X where the cd-rom is.
high light the cd-rom
right clik
uninstall
restart the computer
windows will detect and re-install the cd-rom drive.
try a cd

if that doesnt work update windows

also buy a cd-rom cleaner at your local electronics store
clean the drive w/th cleaner
try a cd

if updating your driver for the cd rom drive and all ive suggested then its time for a new cdrom drive