external cd-rw problem(catch 22!)

Kavs

Hey just thought somebody out there could help me!
My problem is that a friend of mine bought an iomega external cd-rw drive for his laptop,because the original cd-rom refuses to work,mechanical failure i suspect(no spin up),the laptop is well out of warranty so buying an external drive seemed like the right idea.(yea right)Well after shelling out €160 for the drive he was confronted with the following problem.
He runs win'98 but that particular OS will not pick up the drive automatically u need the drivers off the cd supplied to operate it.Or alternatively iomega suggests that u install the apporiate OS,win XP or 2000,yea that would be mighty but he aint got no cd-rom to work with!!So does any body know of anywhere i could get drivers for the damn thing so it can be picked up on win98
specs are:Iomega CD-RW 48/24/48 USB 2.0
Any help would be much appreciated!:)
cheers.

Creamy Goodness

http://www.iomega.com/software/index.html


go there fill out the boxes u'll get a list a files that might help!

Kavs

Been there, done that and wrote the book but to no avail!!
Spent about an hour this morning trawling through the website nothing i downloaded done the trick.I'm just thinking though is the unit backward compatible wit usb1.0???
thanks for the suggestion anyway!