# Help with my CD Drive please!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-my-cd-drive-please/188892>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 11, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-my-cd-drive-please/188892 "2006-05-11T16:35:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![slinkyart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@slinkyart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/slinkyart)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-my-cd-drive-please/188892/1 "2006-05-11T16:35:42Z")

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Hey all!

Okay, so I have a dumb Gateway laptop at home that is running Windows XP…well a couple of months ago, my laptop crashed and my hard drive got erased. Since then I have gotten everything working again except for my CD Drive. Whenever I put a CD in, the laptop doesn’t recognize that there is a CD in the drive nor does any “autorun” features work. I do have Internet connection on the laptop and I’m assuming (and hoping) that all I need is to download some sort of driver for it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![Maxtr0sity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-my-cd-drive-please/188892/2 "2006-05-11T20:37:27Z")

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…download the drivers?