help with CD drive; can't install driver

If anyone could help me with this, I'd appreciate it SO much.

Here's what happened; I just got a new 300gig hard drive, and hooked it up. It was working fine, and I had all these CDRs lying around that were full of data that I planned on transferring to my new drive. I burned them on this same CD drive as well. I was transferring stuff, and installing some programs on it as well. I went to install Winamp, and my computer crashed. I have no idea what that was about, but I just figured I'll skip it and use realplayer or something. I go to turn my computer back on, and when Windows XP boots up, there's no CD drive in My Computer. It doesn't work either. I go to device manager to see what the problem is, and there it says "A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality. (Code 32)." And it has a Microsoft driver listed in there! So I'm like okaaay... I went to LG's website (the brand of the CD-RW drive) and tracked down the driver needed. It requires an MS-DOS bootdisk to be made, and the driver files to be put on that disk. So I tried that, and it doesn't work. I was supposed to put the CD-RW drive on the secondary IDE channel as the master drive, but I didn't know that at first. So I don't know if that messed something up, but after I understood all the directions on their website and tried it properly, it still doesn't work. Any ideas?