Okay, I have a lost CD drive, but a person told me I could download MSCD.exe from microsoft.com. But I went there, and I totally could not find it. Can you help me find MSCD.EXE, please?

You might want to go into your Device Manager and find your CDROM. (DVD/CDROM Drives) and delete your CDROM. Reboot and it should reinstall for you. It will install the drivers automatically. Normande

I had to do this on my uncle's new DELL system because one of his CDRom's stopped working one day. Soon afterward, the other one stopped too!!! We removed the software which fixed it for a few days. The next time we removed the software AND the hardware. Booted the system once without the hardware and shut it down. Reinstalled BOTH drives into the CPU Case and booted the system. It detected them and reconfigured itself. They have worked since then.....since the end of January 2003.

I think maybe the suggestion for mcsd.exe was in error. It 'might' have been mscdex.exe. But that is an old DOS file. It should not be needed for WinXP unless you have a very old cdrom drive. Try Normande's suggestion. If that doesn't work, check the following: http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/24256.html

Just had the same problem. Yes, the link above might work, try it first. Then you might try Normande's solution, then Wassonv's above. If all this does not work, try mine :) REINSTALLING WINDOWS XP, WHILE KEEPING ALL YOUR SETTINGS, DRIVERS AND PROGRAMS You will need the I386 directory from your WinXP CD disk. Get it over network, by zip-drive, by Norton Commander over a COM-cable, or whatever works for you. A good practice is to keep it on your hard disk, better not on the boot partition, and better on a FAT32, not NTFS one. Now go in there (under running Windows, not from DOS, unfortunately. If someone knows how to do this from DOS, let me know PLEASE!), and start winnt32 with /unattend parameter. That's it. It will reinstall windows without asking you a thing, and KEEP all your drivers/programs/settings, even the wallpaper. With me, the lost CD came back. The only thing you need to do again is to install the WinXP updates from Microsoft site. Even the service pack, if you don't have it on your CD.