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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...

I have an Acer and since upgrading to Windows 7, the DVD drive is only there intermittently. If I start the computer and go to 'Computer', the drive will be there. I double click and it will say 'Please insert a disc'.....no problem. If I start the computer and put a disc straight in, nothing...

My CD/DVD drive isnt showing up in my computer or in the device manager. My drive is an Optiarc DVD RW AD-750A My computer is a Lenovo ideapad-Y710 laptop I have had this problem for a while. I finally just backed up to an external and re installed windows. but still the problem...

Hi, I have an hp dv3z-1000, windows 7 x64 bit windows - I recently clean installed I downloaded the driver I need for the hp quick launch buttons, but my eject button won't work. I press it and my cd does not eject. It is not my cd drive. I can manually eject it by going to my...

I just installed Windows 7 (from USB) and when trying to install Office from DVD found out that my computer cannot read DVDs anymore. For CDs it works fine. I have TSST corp CD/DVDW TS-H652L ATA device (HP desktop). Tried updating driver, removing device and reinstalling,... no matter what I do...

hi, i m having a problem with all the OS except window XP and lower, i.e. when i insert any cd containg autorun.inf file in the cd/dvd drive, then it does not run the setup.exe file automatically. What's the hell? Everytime when i m in hurry and want that setup should run auto, then it does not...

OK here is the problem. I upgraded from XP which worked great as a clean install. The olny problem I have is my computer won't boot up from the hard drive only if I leave the upgrade CD in the drive will it boot. I reloaded it once same thing. I called another tech guy and he said he had never...

I need help with Windows Seven Pro 32 bit I installed on a nice custom built PC on Monday, it refuses to see (4) different DVD/CDR drives. I've tried the various methods for Disabling the Digital Driver Signing in Windows 7 but no luck. F8, then selecting diable never worked, registry entry...

I purchased the Family Pack upgrade a few days ago and have upgraded a deks top and two laptop computers. I am very pleased with Windows 7 and its' operation on all these coputers and have only encountered one problem. I have a laptop which was running XP. After upgrading in the 32 bit...