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Hello Windows 7 forums. I have a problem. Windows Vista wouldn't start up, which was a bitch but I installed windows 7 over the top and kept all my old files, which was ok. But now when I put a CD in with avi's or whatever on the disk drive disappears when content is paused or closed and doesn't...

I have an XP-machine used as a back-up to my Win-7 machine via a LAN. The XP machine had to have a motherboard replacement (a new but less-enhanced Gigabyte board). I have a Gigabyte CD (but not a floppy disk) which came w/ the new board. I boot w/ the XP Pro CD and I indicate that I have a...

Alright so to begin, I'm currently using a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, everything has been running great for the past 3 months give or take. Then all of a sudden about a week ago i lost internet even though everything was all hooked up. So I figured i would restart my PC, to my surprise...

Hi, We are experiencing problems with Unattended instalation of Windows 7. Everything works fine except the <ProfilesDirectory> field which "change the location"/rename of USER and ProgramFiles folders from C:. First we try to move USERS do d:\ drive. < ProfilesDirectory > D:\Userss </...

Hello All, I tried using my CD-ROM Drive, which would not read any of my cd's. I looked in the Device manager, where I found the following error message under CD-ROM drive: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software...

I had recently installed Win 7 Ultimate x64. I found that the cd drive would not read DVD DL. I tried all methods(incl all KB articles) and finally decided to go back to x32 hoping that the change would cure it. No chance. It reads all other types of DVD ok and writes too. I have tried several...

Last night i was using both my DVD and my CDrom drives just fine. Windows did some update last night and now the drives dont show up at all. Im not sure what to look for to fix this issue. I have made no other changes whatsoever in between the time that i used it just before powering down last...

I have had Windows 7 installed for about a month now. However, my CDRom keeps disappearing almost as if the computer thinks its a removable device. That being said I found a 'solution' to edit the registry but the fix did not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lang

My laptop ran windows XP, and i used the windows 7 compatibility software to see if windows 7 can work with my laptop and it was approved. Long story short after i installed windows 7 i installed all the drivers the sony esupport told me to, however my CD drive isn't working. when i go to the...

Hi everyone. I'm using a new Toshiba laptop with Windows 7, and I have a problem with the CD/DVD drive that I can't seem to find an answer to anywhere. Whenever I put a CD in the drive, W7 seems to think it's a VCD and begins trying to play it with Windows Media Player. This happens with every...

I recently upgraded my fully functional XP Pro OS for Win7 Home, but I am having major problems with the pc hanging or crashing whenever I insert a blank or written CD 7 DVD. At first I thought it was my optical drive so I replaced that with a compatible LG drive, but the same thing happens...

Operating system: Windows 2.6.0.6001 (SP 1) CPU type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz CPU Speed (GHz): 2.02 System memory (GB): 3.998 Graphics card model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M Graphics card driver: nvd3dum.dll Desktop resolution: 1366x768 Hard disk size (GB): 285.397 Hard...

I have a CD of a video editing software.When I want to download it into my hard drive I get a message that I don't have permission-"please log in as adminstrator".This is my laptop and there is no adminstrator.How do I set adminstrator permission.I have upgraded from Vista home premium to...

Dell laptop E5500 running windows 7 x64. DVD ROM appears in device manager after start up for a few seconds then disappears. Showing Error Code 45 (not connected to computer) Earlier this evening it also showed error code 10 (device cannot start) Opening and closing the tray prompts it...

Off all things to make it go bye bye, it would be a Rubik's Cube solution disk lmao Luckily for me, I have a spare drive on hand that I know how to install. However, I'm not completely sure it'll work on this new computer (I took this drive off my old one). I don't see why it wouldn't, but...

Hello, I have a problem that I can't figure out. I was messing around on my girlfriends laptop and seem to have messed up the permissions on her account. She is an administrator but creating a new account doesn't seem to solve this. A warning message saying "Windows cannot access the...

Hii. I bought a laptop a couple of days ago, with 32bit Windows 7 already pre-installed, but I noticed the CD/DVD Drive isn't showing up in 'Computer' section. Link Removed due to 404 Error After looking into it, I found in the divice manager that there was a little yellow triange by the CD...

I have an old XP machine with a C: drive, two CD drives (D: and E: ) and a hard drive with three partitions (F:, G:, and H: ). I just got a new Gateway 4300 Windows 7 machine. It currently has a C: drive and a single DVD/CD drive (D: ). I would like to move my second drive from the old...

I just received my software to install Windows 7 in the mail today, and it seemed to work fine during the installation. Afterward, when it came to phase 3 of the installation (reinserting the Acer upgrade DVD), it began to malfuncton. Won't recognize CD in CD drive to install the driver...

Ummm, I think this is just some crap wiring or something but all of a sudden my CD drive just disappeared. Its come back twice over the past week but whenever i move it (its a laptop) it seems to go away again. It doesnt show up in boot menu, device manager, or My Computer. I tried opening up...