dvd drive

Well the problem's fairly simple, my optical drive won't read DVDs on W7. CDs work fine (I tried Diablo 2 & Warcraft 3) but DVDs won't work. I tried one I burned myself, several games and a few dual-layer ones. Windows just doesn't see a disc in the drive and when I want to open the disc from my...

After installing the rc Windows 7ultimate version, I noticed that the dvd drive doesn`t show up when I click on the My Computer icon. I haven`t been able to find a driver for it. The model in my laptop is: Sony (optiarc) dvd-rw ad-7540a. The computer also doesn`t find/show any memory...

hi i have installed windows 7 on my acer 4520 but problem is my dvd drive works for less than 12 hrs after installation i tried to reinstall many times but it is not working pc shows dvd drive mark but keeps on spinning dvd with out reading i tried to solve this problem through net but failed...

So, I just got a Sony Vaio TT, and installed Windows 7 on it, but there a few issues that have come up. The first issue is the dvd drive is not showing up and this is the error shown in device manager. Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the...

Hi All, I just want to know/ask how come I can read/install my Windows 7 RC from my Dell Latitude E6400 whilst on my Compaq Presario V3532TU won't? Here's the scenario, I dual boot my Dell with XP and W7. then I've decided to reformat my Compaq Presario V3532TU but when I insert my DVD from...

Ok, i have finally got Windows 7 to install. I love it! Anyway, it would not install if i were to put it in my older IDE DVD drive. I installed it via my other SATA DVD drive which went as it should've. After installing Windows 7, i hooked my IDE drive back up and Windows will detect it but...

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 can't get Windows 7 RC to get beyond the loading of the desktop wallpaper. I have burned the .iso image with Nero on 4x speed twice, finalized the disk, error checked it with no errors. Once the wallpaper loads nothing else happens. No menus error messages or anything. I am attempting...

Hello, I have a Gateway computer with an Optiarc DVD RW drive that works well most of the time BUT if i let my computer go to sleep an odd thing happens. When I power the computer back up from sleep, the drive starts revving up like its reading a disc, even when there is no disc inside, and it...

Installed Windows 7 64-bit Build 7100 on system with Plextor Sata2 DVD Drive. No issues. After about 3 days, the DVD locked up. the tray would not open. Even using the Manual Tray Eject did not work well. After I got the tray opened, I rebooted the computer to see if bootup would suck the drive...

I might have missed this somewhere so bare with me and I will tell you what I have done so far. I have win 7 x64, which I have installed on my old hp laptop with no problems whatsoever. I have tried several things to get it to work on my gigabyte ga-ma78gm-2sh motherboard. I am using an IDE...

I installed the 64bit version of 7 last night. After countless snags along the way, it's finally in and looks great. However, this morning when I went to begin installing applications, I noticed that my DVD-RAM won't spin up or load CD/DVD when they are put into the tray. For example, the...

Hey everybody, I know this problem has been seen before, even before windows 7. Problem is I've been trying to install the 32bit version of 7 since the RC came out and the installation always hangs at "completing installation". The install boots a little slow, but it goes through everything...

Hey, I have problem installing Windows 7. Installation stops at 2-3% and i get error: wrong volume is in the drive insert RGC1CULXFREK_EN_DVD. When i pres retry i get different error every time, like: 0x8007003 or 0x80070022, when I pres continue installation stops. I have downloaded Windows 7...

Hello, I have an odd problem where I have downloaded the Win7RC, burned the .iso image to a dvd, multiple times with 4 different programs, and every time I have the same result when attempting to install. When I start my pc, select boot from cd drive, I get to the prompt "press any key to boot...

This was a weird one. I did a clean install of RC1. I used my Dell driver CD to reinstall drivers. After installing the sound, chipset, and SATA drivers the DVD drive would disappear at the end of each installation. I rebooted and BIOS did not detect it. I had to power off at the end of each...

Hi All, I wanted to install Windows 7 today, but I get stuck when it asks me for drivers for my SATA DVD Drive (Asus 2014L1T Drive). I have tried selecting the Drivers from the Motherboard CD, but nothing seems to work.. I am installing Windows 7 RC7100 64Bit, but it happens on 32Bit...

Ok, I've tried everything I know but nothing seems to help, so I'm going to ask here. I have a DELL STUDIO M1737 with an OPTIARC DVDRWBD BC-5600S the problem I'm having is whenever I insert a disk into it, the whole of explorer.exe locks-up, even clicking it, and properties with not disk in it...

I have searched the trheads and have found similar questions but I have a somewhat unique problem, I think. I had originally used Vista and then signed up for the W7 Beta. I installed it on a partition of my HD and set up dual boot. Sometime afterwards I tried to use an online data storage...

Hello, I have a 5 years old computer and I'm trying to install Windows 7. I have a problem booting from Windows 7 DVD disc while for my sister this disk is working fine. I have a DVD-drive but I can't boot DVD discs from there - only regular CDs. Maybe it's because an old Bios version or a...