Well, this was a right pain in the tailpipe!

[Lucky13]

Got a this one a wee while ago....

The (insert your choice of words here) E: drive can't find the (again, insert your choice of words here) CD-rom, even with the disc in it, it shows up as empty!

Can you find the installation as a pdf online perhaps, for this model?

B*llocks and double, triple b*llocks!!

 

[Airframes]

Don't know old boy.
I got a film / slide scanner from Aldi a few years ago, and from memory, I just plugged it in to the box of tricks, and the monkey inside sorted it out, and it worked.
Quality isn't brilliant, but not too bad, and at least i have some old slides on the hard drive now, and I suppose if I played around with the settings, the quality could be improved.
Have you tried just installing it without the CD ?
The computer should 'find' the device, just like connecting your camera, and the CD might just be (and probably is) a dedicated photo editing programme, which in most cases are a pain in the Rs and not needed anyway.

 

[Lucky13]

At this moment in time....this (deep sigh and counting to 100) laptop, couldn't find its own....*rse, or whatever!

 

[Airframes]

Give it a severe bollocking !

 

[mikewint]

With electronic gizzmos always buy two. Put them next to one another. Do ennie-mennie-minee-mo and then beat one of them to splinters with a large hammer. After that anytime the surviving whizbang starts to forkup you just have to show it the hammer!!
Got to show these things you mean business

 

[Prop Duster]

The (insert your choice of words here) E: drive can't find the (again, insert your choice of words here) CD-rom, even with the disc in it, it shows up as empty!

Not wanting inflame a sore point but are you sure the CD is facing right way around ? maybe that's why the computer can't "see" the disc. Is the CD for your type of computer ?(windows / Mac) If that is not the solution then simply go out to the garden and bury (under the light of a 1/4 moon) the computer in the ground, swearing "it was here a minuet ago, why would it run off?" thus convincing the neighbors that there was something "mighty strange going on", with that machine.