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7. Installing Drivers and the Writer Software
7. INSTALLING DRIVERS AND THE WRITER
SOFTWARE
As a general precaution the installation of the hardware has to be car-
ried out as described before. The software installation starts with acti-
vating the reading functionality of the drive as this is well known with
any conventional CD-ROM drive. If the reading functionality is avail-
able the next installation step is to achieve the writing functionality pro-
vided of the writer software. More details according the installation of
your writer software you will find in its documention [Help].
7.1 Installing Drivers with Windows 95/98/ME/2000
According to the Plug-and-Play conventions the CD-RW drive is rec-
ognized as a standard CD-ROM drive first. To make this possible the
drives hardware installation must have been carried out correctly. After
switching on your computer, Windows 95/98/ME/2000 will install the
necessary driver automatically.
Caution:
Do not install any additional drivers with Windows 95/98/ME/2000.
7.2 Installing Drivers with Windows NT 4.0 and OS/2
After installing the hardware, the reading functionality of the CD-RW
drive is activated with installing the drivers shipped with the correspond-
ing operating system. The drivers may be configured and activated
aided by the system control. Please refer to the manual of your operat-
ing system for any details.