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    Windows 10 Acer Aspire M3-581TG DVD drive not working since Windows 10 upgrade

    Hi there, I recently installed Windows 10 on my 3-4 years old Acer Aspire laptop, and after fixing the wifi and bluetooth drivers problems I've just found that my DVD drive no longer works! It shows up in My Computer, Device Manager etc and has power and makes whirrs, but it won't read any...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Hard Drive won't stop accessing idle. (disabled indexing)

    Hi. I have been googling and digging thru responses but i cant find an answer to this problem. Ever since I got this computer, I believe the hd has just constantly been reading. It's not extreme reading, just subtle clickclick every quarter second or so. I did a fresh install of w7 x64 just...
  3. Windows 7 Optical drive replacement: An observation.

    When I originally built my current system, for the DVD RW, I opted for a 'LiteOn'. This was because I'd always found them to be good at what they did and firmware updating was a doddle. Unfortunately this particular drive was not so good. To be fair to LiteOn, I think it was just a case of...