the windows 2000 resident driver - ‘usb mass storage device’ will work properly with the external cd-rw, you don’t need to update it to the vendor’s driver. if the resident driver has problem or you want to update the driver to newer version, the following is the procedure:

    1. do not connect the external cd-rw to computer.

    2. insert the usb cd-rw device driver diskette into your floppy drive. double click ‘my computer’, double click ‘floppy drive’, and then double click ‘tppinst’ to run the pre-install program.

    3. on the first screen, click next.

   

    4. on the following screen, select ‘complete’, and then click next.

   

    5. click yes on the ‘digital signature not found’ screen.

    6. after the necessary files are copied into your internal hard disk, a screen will appear as the figure, click finish to restart computer.

   

    7. now the drivers have been updated. after the computer is restart and boot into windows system, you can connect the external cd-rw to the computer. check ‘device manager’, the new drivers should be installed as the table and figure.

   

   

    the above figure indicates the drivers have been installed into the system that supports both usb1.1 and usb2.0 function.

   

    the above figure indicates the drivers have been installed into the system that supports only usb1.1 function.