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Recently a power surge did something funny to my computer. Everything pointed to drive corruption, so I bought a 1TB drive to replace my 2x160GB RAID 0 array. Now I can install the 32-bit version with seemingly no problems but not the 64-bit. I usually get a BSOD but sometimes I get an error...

Hey, I have two machines, both running Win 7 Ultimate. Today I discovered that neither will read a CD or DVD. Both will show the icon of the disc loaded, show the proper remaning space, but not let me open the drive contents in explorer. I can scan the CD with my AV and see the files being...

Hello All, I tried using my CD-ROM Drive, which would not read any of my cd's. I looked in the Device manager, where I found the following error message under CD-ROM drive: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software...

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I have just done a fresh install and after getting a few programs installed my DVD drives stopped working. They are in the bios and I have tried to update drivers ( claims I have latest ) looked in the registry and I do not have any numbers to edit as has been discribed else ware. I have changed...

I see numerous CD/DVD threads here and mine is similar but somewhat different from any of the others, so I will start an additional thread. I have a home built computer with a Biostar 945GZ Micro 775 Motherboard (Intel 945GZ an ICH7/R chipset), Pentium D 830 3GHz Processor, 2 GB ram, 250 GB...

Windows 7 can be installed by a variety of methods although the one we are interested here is the 'Clean Install' method. This method can cause anxiety due to the 'Bios' changes that are used especially if the user is unfamiliar with entering the Bios and making changes. I must add that not all...

Just installed Windows 7 Ultimate from XP using the instructions provided in upgrade packet. Now my optiarc DVD RW AD-7910S won't work (have a Lenovo ThinkPad T400) - I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, running checkdisk, driver says that it is updated when I try to update it, etc. When I go...

Hi All, I have a new Dell Precision T3400 which the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor says I can run the 64 bit version of Windows 7 on. Unfortunately I am running XP pro 32 bit version on it. Dell told me I would need to run my 64 bit disc by hitting F12 when rebooting to boot to the disk. The...

Right yesterday i bought this game & since then i have been trying to solve this problem, i got home put the game into my laptop (2 week old dell inspiron with windows 7) & the usual window didn't pop up like it has with all of the other disks i have put in my laptop (including other dvd's). I...

Hello, I'm having trouble with my Windows 7 disc not being recognized by my CD/DVD drive. Other discs work fine in this drive, and the Windows 7 disc works fine on other computers. I obviously didn't install it onto the other computers, but just checked to make sure the automatic prompt started...

Last night i was using both my DVD and my CDrom drives just fine. Windows did some update last night and now the drives dont show up at all. Im not sure what to look for to fix this issue. I have made no other changes whatsoever in between the time that i used it just before powering down last...

Hi -- I installed windows xp mode on my new laptop and have been trying to install a program that runs on xp but in xp mode it won't read off the DVD drive. Any ideas? This is very frustrating as I upgraded to professional to use the xp mode and to be able to use these older programs. Thanks!

Hello I just joined to request the help of the expert folks here. I am unable to complete the installation of W7 Ultimate 64 bit full retail version on my newly assembled PC. All of the hardware (listed below) is new. I have not been successful with any of the suggestions that I have located...

I recently upgraded my fully functional XP Pro OS for Win7 Home, but I am having major problems with the pc hanging or crashing whenever I insert a blank or written CD 7 DVD. At first I thought it was my optical drive so I replaced that with a compatible LG drive, but the same thing happens...

Operating system: Windows 2.6.0.6001 (SP 1) CPU type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz CPU Speed (GHz): 2.02 System memory (GB): 3.998 Graphics card model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M Graphics card driver: nvd3dum.dll Desktop resolution: 1366x768 Hard disk size (GB): 285.397 Hard...

I'm attempting to install windows 7 ultimate on a desktop. It's a dual core AMD, 2 gigs of ram, etc. It has a DVD drive out of a HP a640N, which HP says is a Philips DVD8401 (this is a IDE drive, not SATA). I mention this because after I select my language and keyboard type, after it says...

Hii. I bought a laptop a couple of days ago, with 32bit Windows 7 already pre-installed, but I noticed the CD/DVD Drive isn't showing up in 'Computer' section. Link Removed due to 404 Error After looking into it, I found in the divice manager that there was a little yellow triange by the CD...

I just built my first computer. Specs are in my profile. I can get into BIOS and the motherboard's onboard OS. BIOS recognizes both my HDDs, both my optical drives, all of my RAM (3x2GB), my CPU, etc. I have the most current version of the BIOS. I can not install Windows 7. I have tried 3...

I have an old XP machine with a C: drive, two CD drives (D: and E: ) and a hard drive with three partitions (F:, G:, and H: ). I just got a new Gateway 4300 Windows 7 machine. It currently has a C: drive and a single DVD/CD drive (D: ). I would like to move my second drive from the old...