I just received this ASUS notebook but noticed it does not have a d drive in disk management. Is there a way to hook up an external USB CD-ROM to play CD's?
You shouldn't need to do any configuration. Did you actually plug in an external CD-ROM drive to a USB port? I have used quite a few different netbooks which don't come with built-in CD-ROM drives and have used an external without issue simply by plugging it in.
It should work that way, but for some reason it doesn't. I even added the CD-ROM as new hardware. I don't think the notebook has Windows Media Player, so I'm going to try downloading that next and see if that helps.