dvd drive

Hello, I was wondering if somone could help me out. My dvd r, rw was allowing me to watch movies. but now windows 7 is only recognizing it as a burn and will not allow me to play dvds. If I put a DVD in to play it, the disc ejects and windows asks me to insert a a disc into d drive.

I am trying to install Win 7 Home Premium on a different HD, I have the original install disks, I boot from the DVD drive and the files load as usual but after selecting language I get the message: A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. How do I resolve this? And also is there any...

1) Surf the web for hours and get nowhere, not least when you try the Microsoft Windows 8 forum and they advise you to cut and paste a registry command which doesn't work. At least not for me. 2) Put your drive's SATA lead in a different socket on the motherboard. You may have to experiment...

Hello friends, I am using dell Vostro 1088 notebook,with HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GT10N ATA Device. I have come across a very weird problem of mine,whenever I insert disc windows shows me it as BLANK DISC with 702 Mb free space on Cd and around 4 Gb on Dvds.However,when i insert a setup discs that...

windows 7 oem. new parts in old box, mb, hdd, power supply, ram, running windows dvd boot from dvd. install halts on expanding files at 1-2% and requests the dvd that is already in the drive and will not recognize it. further twisting gets me 0003 and 0022 error codes which suggest upgrade...

Hi, I use Dell 1555 laptop with Win7 64-bit OS since 2 years. Whenever I press the 'I' key it asserts the DVD drive (drive sounds like ejecting a CD/DVD). After this and some delay the 'I'/'i' is displayed as expected. It is very annoying to hear the sound. Please suggest a solution to make 'I'...

Consider the following scenario. 1. You insert a new DVD-RW disk, or insert a used one and erase the contents on a computer that is running Windows 7. 2. You format the disk to "Live File System". 3. Once the wizard completes, you repeatedly write and... 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...

Hi All, I'm building a new system with an Intel DH67GD Link Removed - Invalid URL, Crucial M4 128gb SSD and Sony OptiArc DVD-RW Link Removed - Invalid URL. I've tried to install windows 7 from the DVD, but I got an error: "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing". Both the SSD and the...

I have an odd problem with my Windows 7 installation. The computer I'm trying to install it on is running Windows XP, and any time I try to boot from the disk (I have it set to be first in the boot sequence), it seems to just skip over the disk altogether and run boot from the hard drive (into...

Have a customer who has a XPS system that will no loger read some of his DVD games and all DVD movies. The DVD's in question work before on the system and still works on other computers. After discussing with him if anything change on his system around the time this started he did mention a...

It appears to have just given up on me. It worked perfectly yesterday, but when I tried to author a blank DVD with DVDFlick today, it just stopped working. I have authored many, many DVDs with DVDFlick before, so I doubt that caused the problem. I have tried to get it to read DVDs, CDs and...

This article describes a problem with CD or DVD drives not work, or is missing, or not recognized after installing or uninstalling programs. More...

I have Sony Vaio VGN-NW-23NE with windows7 Home Basic(64-bit). Few days back i got it recovered as it was crashing frequently, after that my dvd drive won't play any media though it detects that a DVD has been inserted but it shows it blank. I have tried with all type of DVDs but the result is...

Hi people! I have a problem I cannot solve. I suddenly got the "Windows cannot start due to a hardware or software change, windows/system32/config/system 0x000000f systemregisterfile missing or damaged" - message for no apparent reason (noe installations or changes lately, it just came up...

This article describes a problem with CD or DVD drives not work, or is missing, or not recognized after installing or uninstalling programs. More...

Fixes a problem in which the DVD drive on your computer is not recognized after you install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

I insert a DVD+RW with some movie files on it into the dvd drive of my computer. A couple of seconds later the dvd drive appears in my Windows Explorer (under 64bit Win7) and the movie files can be seen in a section "Files currently on the disc". Fine so far. But the much to my surprise...

My system installed he W7 SP1 a week or so ago - immediately had a problem: my ATI 9600 graphics card stopped working with the upgraded driver giving the error message: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing (code 39). The legacy drivers...

Every time I touch my laptop in the wrong place the DVD drive opens. That's annoying. But not half as annoying as the fact that, when I close the drive, Windows Media Player interrupts whatever it's doing to start whatever disk in it. I have AutoPlay in Control Panel set for "Take no action" in...