Gang, Over several moves, with things in storage in another state, I've lost my install disk for my HP CD-Writer USB 8230e. I've been to all the web support and driver sites, downloaded till my head hurts, installed, re-installed, but the system never recognizes my drive. I'm on my Laptop, which is Win98se. I get the "USB hub" installed OK, the "Adaptec Easy CD Creator" and "Direct CD" installed OK, but the drivers for the writer itself are not working. Everytime I reboot, I get the "Found new Hardware" message and routine. I try installing from both the HP software side, I've downloaded, and from the Windows "New Hardware" side but both get to a certain point and hang. Windows give me the further message of "This driver is not compatible with your hardware". Nothing I do is of avail. I tested the drive to make sure it works and my other computers with Win2K and XP work just fine with it. I'm a little desperate here needing to back-up and burn a couple priority CD's! Hoping someone else has gone through this and conquereed it. OMR

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