I'll keep it simple.

Laptop, had vista, uninstalled, put XP on.

Had to load a lot of drivers manually.

DVD drive is : MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-850S

Comes up as a CD-RW only. Its a DVD-/+RW though.

Found a bunch of ---- online about editing the registry, well, I don't have the registry keys that would be there. Then again, it seems that every page I brought up was about problems in Vista.

I've uninstalled the ---- to try to reinstall it, and it still comes up as CD-RW. I insert a DVD+R and it does squat, doesnt recognize it. "Found New Hardware - CD-ROM drive" is what it comes up when I reinstall it.

Tried to find drivers. Couldnt find ----.

Help?

 

laptop model?

 

never uninstall laptop drivers unless you go to the website and see the drivers for the version of the OS you want

I downgraded my Toshiba and it works 10 times faster with XP than with Vista.
All my drivers were on the Toshiba site

 

thanks turbostd. fixed.

So this thread isnt epic fail,

 

with a ***** like ^ that one it looks like she belongs at a gwar concert.....lol