Bought a new computer for Xmas and cant find DVD ROM drive?

START --> RUN --> MSINFO32.EXE [TYPE IN THE LAST WORD AND PRESS ENTER] IT WILL SHOW YOU A LOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER. GOOD LUCK.

Please, please, please re-post with the Make & Model number of your new PC!!! Without it we can only guess at what's wrong. That said, RTFM: 1. Read the PC User Manual from cover to cover and follow all instructions. 2. Read the Printer User Manual from cover to cover and follow all instructions. 3. Still stuck? Call tech support at the store where you bought them, 4. Last resort, call the respective manufacturer for more help. After all, new stuff is almost always under warranty. TIP: Most new PCs (with Vista, for sure) have DRM built-in (Google for it), so illegally created DVD / CDs may not work. Try something "store-bought" first.

The drivers are probably for Windows XP....Go online to your printer site and check for Vista drivers. Also, you can go to programs>accessories>system information>components (found in toolbar to left of your sys. info. window and check if your CD recorder/player is listed. there again, maybe driver problems. You can find driver downloads at www.driver downloads for free.com. GL.

First you need to check if the DVD shows up when you boot computer or goinng to BIOS menu to see if it's there. If you don't see anything, you might need to open the case to check to make sure all power cable and data (ribbon) cables are securely inserted. Note: if your HD and DVD are on the same cable, make sure 1 is set to Master and the other one has to be Slave. Else you have a faulty DVD.

Normally when u install a printer, u start the install by puting the disk into the drive and then hiting the install drivers, which reads direct of the install disk. If you are starting the install and then puting the disk in after, sounds like your doing it back the front, if u plug the printer in 1st, windows will atempt to start the install and will ask for the driver disk, which has a 90% fail rate to detect the drivers on the disk. So unplug the printer, put the driver disk in, it should auto-run, select install drivers, it will ask mid way to plug and turn ya printer on normally, if not do so after installation of drivers has finished. Now if in your "MY COMPUTER" icon on desktop or "start" menu, has all ya hard drives/ cdroms listed etc, it may not list it as a "DVD" but simply "CDROM" or "CDRW" or similiar or even just "D:" Hard drives are normally listed as "localdrive: c/d/e etc", floppy is normally "floppy: A" or similiar, so whats left should be ya DVD rom even if its just a letter, the drives a normally in letter order, so C, D , E etc, so if C and D are listed as "local drives" then "E" will probably be ya cd-rom, also when u put like a game disc in, a image will appear next to the letter, if the cd has a install file with image attached, like most games cd's do. Also since u fiddled with the cables, their are 2 cables, power and the data cable which is a flat ribbon type, make sure the flat ribbon one is firmly in. When you restart your computer the 1st, very 1st screen with white text you see will list you installed cpu, drives, so since u have 1 hardrive u should see your cpu info at the top, then 3 drive names, they may be labeled as the model or brand for the drive, will vary, plus the floppy should be listed also, if u atleast see 3 tags representing some sort of drives, means it must be pluged in corectly. you can check in bios also, but best u leave that alone :P. this info is based for a normal PC, some prebuilds offered by dell and other companies do PC setups which are designed not to be changed or modified unless with their supplied parts, they can have diferent load up screens and crap....also they should be avoided :P.