cd/dvd drive

Guys, I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 17-7778 that currently has Windows 10 installed. This laptop does not have a CD-ROM drive and it only has (2) USB ports. I'm having trouble getting Windows 7 intalled, here are the things I have done to boot to CD or USB 1. Disabled...

I have a Toshiba Satellite C655 with a DVD RW drive that won't play some DVDs or video games. For example, I put in a new Sim City game I bought today and a yellow light briefly flashes but does nothing after that. When I go to the Computer folder and click on the DVD RW icon, it spits out the...

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I have a netbook whose harddrive has crashed. It has no CD/DVD drive and does not supports booting from USB flash drives but does support booting from USB floppy or USB CDROM drives. The problem is that I don't have neither a USB floppy nor a USB CRROM drive. Therefore the only viable option...

Describes an issue in which you receive an "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing" or "A media driver your computer needs is missing" error message when you try to install Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, or Windows Server 2012. More...

Recently, I've been unable to access my F: drive. When I double click on the drive I get en error that says "Application Not Found". I can, however right click on the drive and open it that way, it's just extremely annoying. It doesn't matter what device is set as the F: drive, be it a UBS...

I'm having a problem with my computer I am running two operating systems on my computer. Windows 7 on a sata hard drive, and windows XP on an ide drive. my problem is that my hard drive light flashes constantly about once per secondm, and the computer is running slow, ( solitare is slugish and...

Hi, I hope I picked the right forum category. I'm not computer literate so when my 14 month old PC running Windows 7 Home Premium failed to restart I took it to Staples for a recovery installation. Since bringing it home I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials, then downloaded PC...

I recently aquired a computer and ordered acer backup recovery cds to reinstall windows 7 home premium 64 bit the included options all very staright forward.none have worked ! these are the included directions below however when i try either of these options it seems the cd just spins and...

my dvd player on my acer aspire laptop does not respond to any new dvds when I want to play them. I then went to devices under hardware and selected the CD/DVD device and then get this message."Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is...

I have computer with Phoenix award bios utility v1.3 (945 platinum w7176ims v1.3). Im trying to install windows 7 but I keep getting "a required cd/dvd drive device driver is missing." this is after I press install now. Im stuck in select the driver to be installed window. I have 2 hdd 1 is...

Alright , I had this problem previously, and fixed it both times eveuntully. My problem is this , I can't install my Windows Ultimate 64 bit edition on my RAID 0 Western Digital 500GB hdd's because on the boot screen my computer keeps telling me to "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert...

Hello, I'm having trouble with my Windows 7 disc not being recognized by my CD/DVD drive. Other discs work fine in this drive, and the Windows 7 disc works fine on other computers. I obviously didn't install it onto the other computers, but just checked to make sure the automatic prompt started...

I'm trying to upgrade my PC from Vista Enterprise SP1 to Windows 7. When I start the upgrade from within Vista it tells me it is copying Setup Files to my computer. Initially there is activity with the CD/DVD drive and then it stops. The screen continues to say Setup Files are copying but...

I have an older gen 5 dell XPS and was having issues with the windows 7 DVD booting, I tried everything from updating the firmware of the drives to updating the BIOS, moving and making the only thing bootable device my CD/DVD ROM drive nothing would work. I didn't want to take the time of...

I am trying to upgrade from Windows Vista 32bit to Win 7 64bit. The only way to do a fresh install for me would be to boot the installer from the disk. When I hit f12 or whatever and select boot from cd/dvd drive, it says BOOTMGR missing and my computer restarts. So I can't install Windows 7. I...

I have compaq laptop with vista basic want to load windows 7 in D drive, I downloaded windows 7 and burned to a dvd at 2 X speed wiith power iso. The DVD loads correctly but I get the following error message "load driver - A reqd CD/DVD driver device is missing. if you have driver floppy disk...

Hi There I had windows 7 when it was the beta just to see what its like. Now i have downloaded the new 64 bit version from MSDN. Upon installing i encountered several errors: First time it got almost all the way through then blue screened, then upon restart displays the message that the...

I would like to avoid reverting back to XP but this system originally had XP when i installed. Worked for a while then for some reason after installing and using DAEMON TOOLS, MAGIC DISK, and ALCOHOL 120% i have had some explorer.exe errors. Their is also CD/DVD drive that should not exist on my...

CD/DVD drive locks explorer, won't play audio discs Hi shiny people, My optical drive was working fine under XP Pro and it was the drive I used to burn and install my copy of Win 7. Once I booted Windows 7 though, it refuses to read CDs or DVDs. With audio CDs both Winamp and Window...