Brought this crappy thing about 2 years ago and its been down ever since. I got a virus and decided to reinstall the whole system. Now I am missing the driver to the DVD/CD-RW Combo driver. CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP?

P.S. I was also missing the audio and network/modem driver but got them off the Gateway website.

Support Information:
Device Type: CD / DVD
Manufacturer: Gateway
Model: E-Machine 4625
Interface: Other
Operating System: Windows XP Home
Age of Device: < 2 years old
FCCID:

Type of drive: dvd-r/cd-rw (dvd burner, dvd reader, &amp; cd burner combo)
Location: internal
What recording software are you using?: Easy Cd Creator/version

Find it on DriverGuide (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=srch&sm=b&aax=&qa6=424&qa5=3&qa7=1500&dp=2&qm0=E-Machine+4625&jmd=and&fzz=d) | Find it with Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Gateway+CD+%2F+DVD++E-Machine+4625+Windows+XP+Home+) | Research manufacturer Gateway (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=getinfo&companyid=424)

Since you failed to say if you have the Windows XP os installed and working, I can only offer the following:

Optical drives never require a driver when used in any Windows os from Win95 up. Windows XP provides native support that allows this drive to read a data or music disk and to burn a cd-r disk. No support for playing dvd disks or for burning dvd or cd-rw disks. For those tasks, compatible 3rd. party recording & dvd decoding software is required.

If your problem is non-detection, please read post #24 in this thread: http://forums.driverguide.com/showthread.php?t=21669&page=4

Now if your problem is you have reformatted the hard drive and yet to install Windows, then you don't need a Windows XP driver, you need a DOS driver to enable the optical drive. That driver is on every boot disk. If you don't have a boot disk, then go to www.bootdisk.com and get one.

And last, if your trying to install Windows XP from the cd disk and you can't get the system to see the install disk, simply go into bios setup and change the boot order to where the cd rom drive is the FIRST boot device.

Anything I missed please let me know.