external DVD drive with bootcamp

Im using snow leopard and windows xp with bootcamp.
I am using an external DVD drive, for some reason when the drive is plugged in windows won't run, instead a Grey screen appears and i have to shut down the computer and unplug the drive for windows to work...
The drive is Samsung SE-S084D
Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?

What happens when you plug in other USB devices while Windows XP is running? It's possible the Samsung drive is somehow defective or drawing too much power from the USB ports. And have you tried the drive from the OS X side. In order to check it with OS X, you will need to insert a disk inside the drive.

Other USB devices work properly on XP, actually once XP is running i'm able to plug in the drive and it works.
The drive works properly on OS X.

Thanks

liran shushan said:

Other USB devices work properly on XP, actually once XP is running i'm able to plug in the drive and it works.
The drive works properly on OS X. Thanks

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Apparently XP is getting confused when the drive is plugged in before it boots. I've seen that happen with stand alone PC systems running XP so it doesn't surprise me. It's probably a registry error in enumerating the hardware. Don't worry over it. Just attach the drive after XP boots up.

I guess it is a registry problem...

Thanks for the help