I Posted this about 10 days ago with no response.
The system is a Pentium 4 1.6, Win XP-Home, less than a year old.
Up till now everything has been working fine. Tried reading a CD with the DVD drive, no luck, but it worked fine in CD\R\RW drive. The DVD drive light came on and spun up like it was reading the CD. Checked Device Manager, no DVD drive listed just the CD\R\RW. Checked the BIOS, the DVD drive was there. I then put the Win XP CD in the DVD drive and rebooted. The machine booted up on the CD in the DVD. I let the Win XP install program install a few files, before stopping it, the DVD was working here.
I them rebooted XP, checked Device Manager, no DVD. Is there a corrupt driver or something in XP that's stopping the DVD from being recognized? It seems to work fine in DOS.
If I disconnect the DVD from the system, reboot, do I need to remove some files so I can reboot after reconnecting the DVD to see if New Hardware Found comes up. Is there a different way I can remove/install new drivers for this DVD when XP doesn't recognize it? Am I thinking right or is there something else?
Any help would be appreciated.

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