Upgrading and Repairing PCs (17th Edition)

CD/DVD Drive and Software Installation and Support

CD and DVD drives are installed and configured in the same way as any other drive with the same interface. For details, see the appropriate section:

• For ATA/IDE drives, see Chapter 7, "The ATA/IDE Interface," and Chapter 12, "Physical Drive Installation and Configuration."

• For IEEE 1394a and USB drives, see Chapter 15, "I/O Interfaces from Serial and Parallel to IEEE 1394 and USB."

After you've physically installed the drive, you're ready for the last stepinstalling the drivers and other CD-ROM/DVD-ROM software. As usual, this process can be simple with a PnP operating system such as Windows 9x or later. In that case the drivers for Windows will automatically be installed. Things are different, however, if you need to access the drive after booting from a floppy, such as when installing an operating system, running diagnostics, or running DOS.