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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, My laptop ( no cd drive ) eee pc came with windows XP. I put windows 7 on it but now I want to sell the laptop, therefore want to put the XP back on it. How can I do that? It didn't come with any discs. Thanks

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...

First post so I hope you guys can help! I have 2 Atapi DVD A DH20A4H ATA drives and at first everything was great. Installed no problem. After a month or so WIN7 stop recognizing them. They are found in Device Manager with a yellow mark. Ive tried upgrading firmware but it just says its not...

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

Trying to install Windows 7 and get hung up after clicking the "Install" button on boot-up using DVD. It loads for a bit, then tells me a CD/DVD Driver is required and can't be found. I've tried using the Windows\System32\Drivers directory but it says no drivers can be found. I had to get the...

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 :)

You can no longer access the CD drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error message after you remove a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in Windows XP: "error code 31" http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B314060&x=12&y=13

I am running into a bit of trouble while I am trying to rip a cd. I recently installed Windows 7 and now when I insert a cd or dvd into my drive it will not start and does not recognize it. I checked the device manager and I get this message: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the...

:(OK I did a complete reinstall of windows but didn't activate it because I was going to install Windows 7 --I then changed bootup drive and restarted it goes to vertifying dmi pool data--then it goes to boot from cd and sits there then it goes on to starting windows xp. I tried to read disc...

Hi Just signed up, But I haveto start this thread on a negative unfortunatly. Whenever I try and open Computer Management or do Anything in WLM2009 an error box comes up saying "There is no disk in drive" Press continue, retry etc. The only way to get past this is to keep pressing cancel or...