Reinstalling a Driver

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From: MNG <MNG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 21:49:15 -0700

I'm having a problem with my DVD-rom driver, it's not reading disks and I
can't find it when I access my computer. It's not the original DVD-Rom drive
the old one messed up and the company fixed it and put in a Toshiba DVD-rom
drive, and I have an HP Computer, and the computer and the drive and have
worked fine up until now. When I pulled my hardware properties there was a
yellow exclamation point next to it and it stated that windows cannot load
the device driver for this hardware the driver may be corrupted or missing.
I tried searching for updates in hopes of restoring it back to normal but the
helper couldn't find anything so now I guess I have to uninstall and
reinstall. My question is, how do I do this?
.

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