Optical drives never require any driver other than what the OS provides natively. The OS provides native support that allows this drive to read a data or music disk and to burn a cd-r disk. Anything else requires compatible 3rd party software like Nero or Easy Cd Creator and WinDVD or PowerDVD. These software will provide the remaining support for burning DVD or CD-RW and also allow the system to play dvd movie disks.