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when i try to play or burn to a disc nothing happened,so i right clicked on my computer,properies,then device manager,theres a yellow symbol under my dvd/cd rom drives,when i right click on any of them and open properties it comes up, Windows cannot start this hardware device because its...

Hello, I have run into an issue here where I am unable to boot my system anymore. It began when I decided to give the disk compression tool a whirl since I thought it may speed up my system a bit...1st mistake. Since it takes about a million and 15 days to complete I cancelled the...

I have been experiencing intermittent BSOD crashes on my Media Center PC with increasing frequency over the past few weeks. This morning I booted from the Windows 7 installer DVD (ready to re-install again), and it started loading files to RAM. After a few minutes it crashed with another BSOD...

Hi, I'm having a big problem with trying to reformat my computer. I've got Windows 7 discs which I've tried to boot from but having no luck. I think it has something to do with my motherboard. Which is a Gigabyte 965P-DQ6. I put the disc in the drive, restart and then enter the boot menu by...

I added a solid state drive last night. I then used Norton Ghost 15 to copy my old drive to my new one. I started the copy process and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning the PC was off. I unplugged the old hard drive and turned the PC on. I then saw the BOOTMGR is missing message. I...

I really don't know what to say, I don't know what's happening to my computer lately. My computers been acting really slow for the past maybe 4 days. It's hard to open any of my files without waiting too long, and my internet browsers are incredibly slow. It's not normal. I thought it would be...

how will i be able to change the devices boot order between CD-ROM, HDD and USB drives within a windows not in bios. is there any particular utility or software which to use?

all of a sudden my 2 cd-rw drives are recognized as cd-rom. what can i do to fix this?? no new programs have been installed. i have win 7, 64 bit

Hi all, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AR51SU Laptop which was running Windows Vista 32 Bit. I purchased windows 7 and installed the 64 Bit version. Everything seems to work fine apart from my Matshita BD-MLT UJ-220S Bluray burining drive. The laptop only sees it as a CD Rom. the device appears with...

I realize i'm not the first one to post this question, but still. My Friend just bought his first computer, and he cant install Windows 7. So right now he has no operation system. We have tested installing it with a regular DVD, that worked on my computer, but not on his. It just says: Cannot...

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I have a Dell Studio 1535 with Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, the DVD-RW drive is Optiarc 7640s. I have read that there are a lot of people having problems with that particular DVD-RW drive. The problem is: it is not detecting DVDs; it detects, reads, and writes cds satisfactory. I have used the...

Hey guys, I'm so frustrated right now! These problems have been occurring since a month. I can't read any DVDs/CDs via DVD-ROM. My computer won't pick up any external-HDD, USB flash drives, nothing. This has been pissing me off since a month and I finally considered of reinstalling the Windows...

I'm using ACER Aspire 4530. I change my OS to Windows 7 Home Premium after a month my DVD ROM is not working :(. I troubleshoot it but it doesn't work :confused: . I also try to uninstall the driver and reboot my laptop but still it doesn't work :question:. My device status is: This device...

I'm trying to do a startup repair of Windows 7 x64 on an SSD but can't boot from the CD-ROM while in AHCI mode. I have set CD-ROM at the top of the boot order in BIOS but this is just ignored and the computer boots from the SSD with the knackered version of W7x64. I read somewhere that when...

MS Office 2007 Professional will not install. It does not get past the splash screen 'Setup is preparing the necessary files', but hangs. The summary error message in Event Viewer is as follows: The device, \Device\CDRom0, has a bad block. The detail is: + System - Provider [ Name]...

I have recently finished building my computer and brought a copy of windows 7 (home premium) 64bit to go with it. But when I try to install I never get past "collecting information" where I am being asked to "Select A Driver To Install" as a driver for my "DVD Device" is missing...

Hello All, I'm new here, so any help/information would be greatly appreciated! My brother bought me the 64bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate for Christmas to upgrade from my 32bit Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2. I understand I can't simply upgrade to the 64 bit and a clean install must...

So i don't exactly know if this is the right forum to post this but does disabling a device actually save energy? For example, i have two CD-ROM players, if i disable one of them do i actually have any advantege in doing so?

So i tired to boot from a cd and my computer no longer will boot from a cd. It has worked flawless for several years. I have no idea why as my drive is fully functional and ive tried 3 different bootable disks that I am positive work as I have used them all several times. I have noticed that my...