[RobDude]

Hi all,

I've got the Business Edition of Vista, just installed it. Everything looks great; updated my video card drivers, went to install Office....

Vista doesn't see my DVD Reader or my DVD Burner.

They appear in Device Manager, and they are correctly named; but they are disabled. When I turn them on (enable) Vista tries to update the drivers for it, searches, then comes back with an error saying that the driver is not intended for this platform.

If I manually select a driver - there is only one 'DVD/CD ROM' driver for me to select - and I get the same error message.

Why would my fresh install of Vista have a driver that doesn't work on my platform? Where can I get the 'generic' DVD/CD rom driver that does work for Vista?

[RobDude]

I see a 'cdrom.sys' file in my C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder. Shouldn't this work?

[Vikingod]

How about your chipset drivers, have they been updated?

[RobDude]

Originally Posted by Vikingod

How about your chipset drivers, have they been updated?

Yup - got them from nVidia along with the graphics card driver.

My BIOS sees my DVD drives - and Vista installed from the DVD drives.....I don't get it?

[RobDude]

Anyone?

It's getting late and I'd really like to get things up and running.

[RobDude]

Okay - so I've put a CD-ROM into *another* computer running XP, copied the files I need to a folder.

I've shared the folder - everyone has read permissions.
I've set the NTFS permissions for the folder as well - everyone has read permissions.

When I try to access it

\\RemotePC\

I get 'Logon Failure: The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.'

Can anyone help me with that?

[RobDude]

Do you all think it might just be a bad download? Should I try downloading another version of Vista?

[BlueMak]

I was thinking of suggesting something till your last post.