drive issue

I'm scared and confused after I see this mysterious local disk appear in My Computer. Opening it gives this error: How do I kill it? What do I do?

I have a Asus K52F portable computer. It works very well. Unfortunately, I've inadvertantly deleted my dvd software. I can no longer read any dvd or cd. It doesn't show on the window where I can see the /C/ and /D/ drives. I can hear it trying to work, but then it just stops. As you can...

I have 3 partition C, D, n E. After i install win 7 ultimate 32 bit in C, my local D: don;t show in windows explorer. All i can see just C: and my E: but write as Local Disk D: When i see in Disk Management, My Local Disk D: still there. How can i restore the D: so i can see that in Windows...

Greetings, Members! Okay When i turn on my laptop it says: "SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0: TOSHIBA MK3017GAS-(PM) WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent. Press F1 to Continue" and then when i push F1 it just have a black...

Hi everyone! Ive got some serious problems here. My disk 0, the only disk I have is totally screwed up and I don't know how to fix it. Basically it is inactive, offline and invalid at the same time. I tried diskpart in cmd but I got out of there without any results. The only helpful thing...

Yesterday, I made the mistake of letting my sister-in-law use my computer (the one I use for work) to burn a CD. I thought she said burn a DVD, which is something I do all the time. However, apparently she downloaded a CD ripping program called CDEX (very legitimate -- doubtful of any...

hoping i can get some help for this problem here i just got this laptop 3 days ago, a Samsung Q430 running Windows 7 Home Premium, and after i installed the newest version of iTunes my DVD RW drive has completely stopped working, it is still visible in the disk manager and is assigned a letter...

Under properties the drive is "FAT32" I wanted to convert it to NTFS, however it will not let me do this. I right click on the drive and select format and immediatly the drive disapears and I get a pop-up stating: There is no disk in drive E: Insert a disk, and then try again. I also...

I am trying to burn some photos from Windows Photo Gallery to CD but after I have chosen the photos and click burn I get the following message :-You don't have a disc drive capable of burning files to CD or DVD. I am running Vista Home Premium on a Dell Inspiron 530 I have two drives an...

Hi, I upgraded my Vista to Windows 7. Turned off Bitlocker before upgrading. When I finally had Windows 7 on my computer I tried to turn on bitlocker again. It was not possible, so I decrypted the drive. Then I tried to encrypt the drive again but on reboot I got a message (bitlocker could not...

I have spent the whole evening looking for a solution to my problem but cant find one so i though i may as well just post it up. I have Windows 7 Installed on my laptop as a dual boot with XP. I installed it from my USB HDD and it all works amazingly well considering how rubbish the spec is...

i have a LG GSA H20N ATA DVD RW. im using windows 7 RC. and it worked fine for some time after installing the x64 OS, but suddenly from now the CD/DVD is not being read. Whenever i put a CD/DVD into the drive, the light blinks for sometime and goes blank. When i double click the drive in...

My Windows 7 is unable to read any CD/DVDs I put and I've tried several methods like uninstalling driver, reboot then let it auto reinstall again. Nothing works. My device name is optiarc dvd+-rw ad-5540a ata. Hope someone can help me :frown:

i had c, d,e, and f drives and i installed windows 7 on f drive and when i log on to windows 7 the drive tht was my c in my other windows isnt appearing on windows 7 but its still there when i log onto my other windows can any1 help me with this plz? thanks edit : nvm found the problem fixed it