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. You don't install a usb drive like other hardware, Widnows installs it automatically and without user intervention.
Is the drive listed in My Computer and Device Manager? Are the USB ports working ok in device manager? Please be specific with your answers.
If your problem is non-detection, please read post #24 in this thread:
http://forums.driverguide.com/showth...t=21669&page=4
It contains instructions on the
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Also, there is a STICKY posted in this forum that contains a file from Microsoft and instructions that will do this registry edit automatically instead of having to do it manually.
And here's another method that will do this automatically for you if you're afraid to edit the registry manually.
You can find firmware update here:
http://members.driverguide.com/drive...riverid=365617