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acer 5536g
About this tag
The Acer 5536g laptop is discussed in the context of a DVD burner issue after upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7. The Optiarc DVD RW AD-7580s ATA Device, which worked under Vista, fails to burn DVDs and cannot copy files from discs, though it can read and run executables. Troubleshooting steps for this specific model include checking driver compatibility and media recognition. The tag covers hardware problems related to optical drives on the Acer 5536g, particularly after OS upgrades.
I recently went from Vista 32-bit to Windows 7 32-bit on my Acer 5536g laptop and I can't for the life of me get the DVD burner to work.
It worked fine on Windows Vista: I used Windows DVD Maker to encode and burn DVDs to watch on my DVD player.
However, after having switched to Windows 7...
acer5536g
blank dvd
burning issues
cd burning
data recovery
device issues
driver issues
dvd drive
dvd maker
dvd-rw
error message
hardware compatibility
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operating system
optiarc
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upgrade
video playback
windows 7