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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 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...

Essentially, nothing happens. The message, after the disc enters the CD drive is "setup has stopped working." There's no explanation. I copied the install bundle to the hard drive and get the same failure when attempting to activiate setup.exe. Any help will be appreciated. It's difficult to...

I installed windows 7 Ultimate (a clean install) onto an older Dell XPS computer running Winsdows xp sp3. The problem I am having is that I cannot access my cd or my dvd drive. The cd and dvd drives show up in device manager and says there are not conflicts and all is working properly. The...

I am trying to install Office 12 H&S on my new Windows 7 via the CD. after putting CD in drive, i receive a notification FILES CURRENTLY ON DISK (14). i click on setup and i get the rotating circle, but it quits after a minute and it doesnt appear that office installed. any suggestions?

Hi all, I properly installed Windows 7 (64-bit) on my Lenovo laptop that was initially running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista. Everything went very smoothly. However, windows would not boot without the installation CD in the drive. All I get is a black screen with a white cursor space (kind...

Hello. I'm after a bit of assistance and thought this place may be the best place to come. I have purchased an Acer aspire 3935 and will receive a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it is released. The problem being that my laptop doesn't have a CD drive. I was wondering whether it is possible...

Hi Everyone, System is completely up to date. I formated the HD and it will not read the recovery CD. I copied the recovery CD to a DVD and tried to boot from it. No good. Now what?

I recently had some bad sectors on my hard drive, and corrupted my Vista which made me install windows 7. I had installed Windows 7 by booting to disk. After I installed Windows 7 I noiced my DVD RW does not appear when I log into Windows, although I can still boot up to cds... just wonering...

Okay I'm going to try to sum this up my best before I go to bed. I put a 32 bit Windows 7 RC on a CD, Try to install several times, It always freezes completly at either the inital background after I pick my language, I move the hard drive over to another machine and install windows 7 from...

Just ordered a new cd that happened to be published in 2003. Popped it into my Vista lappy and got ready to transfer the cd to iTunes so I could put them on my iPod. The stupid thing made a lot of noise, some of which sounded like the drive was destroying the cd, and then I got "Please insert...

I have tried multiple times, on multiple CDs, but every time I boot from the windows 7 CD, I see a blinking underscore on a black screen, I waited around a minute, then sopped. Please help! Gateway MA7 1 gb ram unreliable, probably damaged HDD

I have a very stupid problem, I can't access files on cd or dvd from my computer. When I double click on cd/dvd icon in my computer, nothing happened. If I access cd/dvd drive from Speed Commander, I can see and copy files, but when I try to view or execute them I get the error massage: "Windows...

yes i know this has nothing to do with windows 7 but i think more people can help me on this forum then if i were to ask anywhere else. basiclly i want to make 3 sata cables/ports/whatever it is called for use. my current bios settings disabled most of them (i have 6 and am only allowed to use 2...

I've installed Windows 7 on a secondary PC and Windows now does not recognize my CD Drive. Anyone have any suggestions on how to resovle this? Thanks :)