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- Mar 6, 2006
Windows Vista. Laptop is a Toshiba Protege R500, have no idea what submodel it is (was a gift, originally bought in Asia) and what the actual hardware is.
At some point (don't remember exactly when, since I never actually used the drive, and had actually disabled it via Device Manager), my DVD drive failed to be recognized as such, and Vista identifies it as a generic USB Mass Storage Device and attempts to install it as one, which fails miserably.
I can't manually install it as a optical drive since the driver install prompt only list USB storage drivers as choices.
So the main question:
Is there a way to force installation of drivers that are somewhat appropriate?
Finally, and interestingly, this has also persisted through a format and reinstall (for other reasons - I'm giving the laptop away), which would seem to indicate issues at a lower level with said DVD drive...but it seems to recognized fine in BIOS (I'm going to try using it as a boot drive with a BartPE or Linux image soonish to check, though).
At some point (don't remember exactly when, since I never actually used the drive, and had actually disabled it via Device Manager), my DVD drive failed to be recognized as such, and Vista identifies it as a generic USB Mass Storage Device and attempts to install it as one, which fails miserably.
I can't manually install it as a optical drive since the driver install prompt only list USB storage drivers as choices.
So the main question:
Is there a way to force installation of drivers that are somewhat appropriate?
Finally, and interestingly, this has also persisted through a format and reinstall (for other reasons - I'm giving the laptop away), which would seem to indicate issues at a lower level with said DVD drive...but it seems to recognized fine in BIOS (I'm going to try using it as a boot drive with a BartPE or Linux image soonish to check, though).