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i have a gateway essential 400c im trying to put a lg c\cdrw drive in it, the modle munber for the drive is GCE-8523B rom version 1.01. 98se does not recognise it as a cdrw it only sees it as a cd rom. do i need to put any drivers in to 98 to be seen as cdrw. the processor is a 4oomhz 288 ram and 10 gig hdd. any help is great. tia

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98se sees all cd drives as CD-ROM. only software like roxio or nero will distinguish wheter it is a burner or not.

XP on the other hand, recognizes whether a cd drive is rom or rw or dvd-rom or rw.

Just install some burning software and it'll be fine.

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