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Toshiba Satellite A205-S5825
Vista Home Premium 32 Bit SP1
I have a customer ask for program to use so he can rip home movies to his computer, so I said sure, w/e, I gave him DVD shrink.
He then tells me his DVD Drive no longer works, so I look and see that SOMEHOW the Driver for his optical drive is missing or currupt, or so device manager says.
No Biggy, so I goto the Manufacturer site for his laptop and go to downloads and look for the DVD/CD rom Driver.
No driver, just software for it, so ok, no problemm, I have him give me the disks for the Laptop, I copy the contents of that disk to a folder on another harddrive so I can simply connect by USB, and that works, and I look through the setup, and guess what, No Optical drive Driver, just software for it.
So I then Try Uninstalling the optical drive through device manager and see if windows upon restart could find the driver for it and install, well, as usuall, it could not find and install the driver, so I then Try the Update driver button in device manager and it still won't find the driver...
How irritating that the Manufacturer in two spots would not have the Driver for it...
Unless Im blind?
Toshiba Support - Content List
Unless that Firmware option is the driver and Im just retarded with the fact that Toshiba believes driver and firmware are the same thing?
Well at any rate Ill try that option and if it doesn't work Ill just format and reinstall, unless anyone has any other ideas?
Edit: Tried that firmware option, says driver not found, drive not supported, Dumb...... Dumb Dumb thing...
Vista Home Premium 32 Bit SP1
I have a customer ask for program to use so he can rip home movies to his computer, so I said sure, w/e, I gave him DVD shrink.
He then tells me his DVD Drive no longer works, so I look and see that SOMEHOW the Driver for his optical drive is missing or currupt, or so device manager says.
No Biggy, so I goto the Manufacturer site for his laptop and go to downloads and look for the DVD/CD rom Driver.
No driver, just software for it, so ok, no problemm, I have him give me the disks for the Laptop, I copy the contents of that disk to a folder on another harddrive so I can simply connect by USB, and that works, and I look through the setup, and guess what, No Optical drive Driver, just software for it.
So I then Try Uninstalling the optical drive through device manager and see if windows upon restart could find the driver for it and install, well, as usuall, it could not find and install the driver, so I then Try the Update driver button in device manager and it still won't find the driver...
How irritating that the Manufacturer in two spots would not have the Driver for it...
Unless Im blind?
Toshiba Support - Content List
Unless that Firmware option is the driver and Im just retarded with the fact that Toshiba believes driver and firmware are the same thing?
Well at any rate Ill try that option and if it doesn't work Ill just format and reinstall, unless anyone has any other ideas?
Edit: Tried that firmware option, says driver not found, drive not supported, Dumb...... Dumb Dumb thing...