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Hello, Today I was running a fresh OSX86 installation inside of VMWare Player, and using an actual installation disk in my CD drive, which was then tunneled to the VM. Since the installation froze up halfway through, I shut off the VM, and attempted to eject the installation disk, but the drive...

I bought a new Dell Inspiron with Windows 7 pre-installed two years ago. Recently, my computer has acquired a computer virus which slows down my computer, redirects select google entries and on my C Drive there are folders with names like "df4f0569299e83f51098af913b749bc2" I have decided to...

My computer is currently stuck on a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left hand corner. I tried rebooting from a bootable disk and from a bootable flash drive and neither one worked. My machine is an HP Pavilion Elite HPE-110f. I am running on the 64 bit version. Has anyone run into...

I have a Asus K52F portable computer. It works very well. Unfortunately, I've inadvertantly deleted my dvd software. I can no longer read any dvd or cd. It doesn't show on the window where I can see the /C/ and /D/ drives. I can hear it trying to work, but then it just stops. As you can...

Ok here is an unusual problem which may or may not be a problem on my PC only. Basically Auto Play options do not work because my account is an Administrator account. :confused3: Yes i surely mean it; with my user account as Administrator and i insert a music CD in the drive it does not play...

This article describes a problem with CD or DVD drives not work, or is missing, or not recognized after installing or uninstalling programs. More...

when im restarting and running windows 7 from CD it says: loading windows 7 files... and finishing and then i see the windows 7's blue background with the cursor mouse sign and nothing happened. even if i try more then 1 cd that was burned better it has the same problem. but the thing is that...

This article describes a problem with CD or DVD drives not work, or is missing, or not recognized after installing or uninstalling programs. More...

I Recently purchased a new motherboard and some ddr3 ram (BioStar A770E3), my computer has worked fine, I put those two into my case swapping out the old with the new. My problem is when I go to try and install windows from the CD drive, the installation hangs at disk.sys, along with I can hear...

Hi! Im not techy at all firt off lol I installed itunes on my old laptop which was an hp pavillion with vista and it erased my cd drive. I have a new laptop now, which is a also an hp pavillion, a dm4 with windows seven. I want to know before I install will I have the same problem as with the...

Hi, Randy previously answered this problem with the suggestion that I disallow Windows Updates to overwrite my DVD drivers. I did that and it worked until the next update came down. Now, it's back to square one. When I tried to re-install the DVD driver, I got the following message...

Every time Microsoft updates Windows 7 it causes new problems on what's been a relatively stable Dell XPS8000. The latest update causes my DVD / CD drive (HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GH50N ATA Device) to be inaccessible! By running System Restore I've brought it back from the 'bit-bucket', but I'd really...

ok so first of all i have no idea if this is in the right forum so please don't rip me apart if it is. anyway, my friend gave me his old sony vaio laptop for parts coz it wasn't working and i'm trying to turn the cd drive into an external cd drive. anyone know how to do this? i took it into the...

For some reason Windows 7 Home Premium has decided not to recognize my CD/DVDW drive? It was fine yesterday but today not. The driver is up to date per the fix it tool. Anyone know what I should try next? I have a basic understanding of the computer, but am not expert by a long shot...

well, I couple of months ago I bought a Gateway laptop, one from the N series. About a month ago I got a blue screen, so I have been told to get the Recovery media discs, which I did. One system disc, 3 recovery discs and one language pack. After going through most of the process I ran into a...

Today I decided to re-install windows 7 to make it was again, after backing up all the necessary files onto my on board 1TB hard drive I restartrd windows with the retail CD in the CD drive. I pressed F12 and chose to boot with CD rom, now after several minutes whilst the CD was starting up I...

Whenever I start IE, FF or anything from my CD drive. I get a blank white screen. In order to get out of this. I hit the Windows key on the keyboard and then right click and select desktop. Is this normal or is something causing the problem. Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1.7600 Build 7600 64 bit

i have a problem i am trying to do a recovery from my recovery drive. But its not there so i tried to just reformat my computer using my window 7 cd. when i get to the part that has you pick the install drive its listed right there. so is there another way to get to it like f11(wont work for...

i know this topic has been discussed before but my problem is a lil different then what i read everywhere. i have a hp dv6000 series. recently my cd drive stopped working. and my windows vista was giving me a lot of problems. so i did a partition on my hard drive and installed win 7 on the new...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop running Windows 7. When I attempt to login to my account it hangs at the welcome screen, then the screen goes white and then blue and restarts. I can only use my computer in Safe Mode. I tried Startup Repair, but it did nothing, and I have no System Restore...