Boot Camp, Vista lost DVD drivers

I installed Vista on a Mac Pro, everything was working well. Oh for about 3 weeks, then for some unknown reason, Vista lost the drivers for the Pioneer DVD-Rw drives. I looked all over the net for Vista drivers for the Dives and nothing, (even Pioneers site) Does any one know were and how i can get the drivers reloaded, i did restored it to a point were the drives worked, and they still don't work, I get the yellow exclamation point, for both drives.. Ive tried making a copy of the CD in MAC, and transfer it over to the Window's but it will not allow me to "make changes to file folder"
Please help. (Window's game addict)

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