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I enabled in WinExplorer menu Tools->Folder options->View->Hide empty drives in the computer folder. However (even after restart) empty dirves (like my DVD drive (=no media inside)) are shown in WinExplorer as drives. Why? How can I disable otherwise empty drives in WinExplorer? Peter

MS Office 2007 Professional will not install. It does not get past the splash screen 'Setup is preparing the necessary files', but hangs. The summary error message in Event Viewer is as follows: The device, \Device\CDRom0, has a bad block. The detail is: + System - Provider [ Name]...

To do a total cleanup of my laptop and reinstall Win 7 32bit. It is a: Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M6400. But a problem immediately with the error message: "A key driver needed for CD - DVD drive is missing" Then just my DVD / CD may malfunction (rails sometimes with CDs)...

I’m adding a 10x Internal Blu-ray Disc Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive to my computer. Is there a preferred socket I should connect the SATA cable to on the mother board or can I use any empty socket? I'm running Windows 7 (64-bit) Thanks Jessie

Pioneer External USB DVD\RW unit detected and worked fine on an XP desktop, no problem, worked fine and detected on a Vista Laptop....Upgraded Vista Toshiba Satellite to Win 7 Ultimate and now external USB DVD drive not detected at all...the device is powered by AC power and turns on...

hey im currently running win 7 pro x84 bit and trying to install win 7 pro x64bit however its not letting me, its a legit version of win 7, i have tried booting with dvd drive and on desktop however i keep getting this error Yfrog Photo : yfrog.com/b723655053j ive done a perfomance test...

okay basically, i want to install World of Warcraft onto my laptop. i did it before fine, then i uninstalled it and 6 months later i want to install it again. (i go through phases) but when i put the installation disc in, it doesn't autorun, and when i go to open the dvd-rom, it gives me a list...

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I'm running win7, auto updates, latest nvidia drivers, on an amd dual core 32 bit 2.7 processor with 4gb memory. The machine works perfectly in all respects - except that it won't install any games! I've tried cod4, cod2, bioshock, crysis warhead, mass effect2...etc. All legitimate copies...

This isn't really a big problem, but I just wanted to ask... Every time I boot up my computer or wake it from sleep mode, my DVD drive makes a clunking sound as if it's checking for a disc. I was wondering whether it's possible to make it so that it won't make the clunking sound. Does it have...

Well, I installed windows 7 and right then and there I noticed something was wrong. My DVD+RW drive was not in My Computer. Since I barely ever used my DVD-RW drive, I figured that it wouldn't matter that much. Turns out I was wrong- Later on that day, I had been installing Alcohol 120 to...

Hi, Am setting up new VAIO PC (rescue discs already made so DVD worked), and changed the partitions (resized C: down and added two more) on my hard drive with Partition Wizard, went easy, using the "default" drive numbers offered, E and F, I assumed that D was not available as the DVD was using...

I have an asus G50V refurb that was working fine fine for about a month, then the dvd drive started to mess up on me. The dvd drive only works about 1/3 of the time after rebooting now. The green light on the cd tray blinks during startup, but doesn't always actually open or read cds/dvds for...

Hello and good evening Recently i bought windows 7 to install instead the xp im using now, the problem is after partitioning and installing, the moment when windows wants to start for the 1st time, it gets stuck in the black screen after loading windows remains and the only thing that can be...

I upgraded from XP to W7 Pro. I can burn CD-ROMs but not DVDs. My two optical drives are SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A ATA. They worked fine in XP. I've tried updating and uninstalling the drivers from Device Manager, no good. The odd thing is that both Roxio 2010 and Windows DVD Maker will encode...

Hi I installed Roxio Pro creator 2010 on my win 7 pro laptop But when i put empty dvds it the laptop fails to recognise it i could not find the softwares(drivers) for my laptop as it was preloaded with vista hp pavilion dv6735ee help sought:|

Earlier yesterday I upgraded from XP to Windows 7. I installed my graphics driver via CD, updated Windows 7 and suddenly my DVD drive did nothing. I checked event viewer only to see a string of error 51's like this Log Name: System Source: cdrom Date: 9/16/2010 7:55:21 PM...

Hey guys, I have a Acer Aspire X1700 that came with Windows Vista installed. I upgraded to Windows 7 and now my dvd drive doesn't recognize dvds (ie movies, dvd games 'Starcraft 2'). I can play CD just fine. My desktop came with Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203S SCSI. I've tried uninstalling the...

I have had this problem forever and no one at Adobe forums was able to figure it out so I thought maybe I'll ask here to search for a non-Adobe solution. When I use a program called Adobe Encore - for authoring and burning DVD's, while the program is working (it works for many hours on one...

Problem description: I've just built myself a new computer. It was my first time ever building a computer from scratch, although I have played around with the innards of my old one and replaced most things aside from the motherboard and cpu so I had a pretty good idea of what I was doing. I got...