dvd drive

**NEVERMIND, I found the sticky. Sorry!! Hi everyone, I received a copy of Windows 7 Pro 32 from my school. I want to install it on my PC, but it doesn't have a DVD drive. Is there another way to install this without buying one? Now, I do have a DVD drive on my laptop, and I've heard of...

Hope this hasn't been covered to death. I searched extensively and couldn't find quite the same problem. I installed Win7 x64 Ultimate over the weekend. I previously had Beta & RC as a dual boot in addition to XPx64. I'm now running Win7 alone, though I have the HDD with XPx64 set aside...

Ummm, I think this is just some crap wiring or something but all of a sudden my CD drive just disappeared. Its come back twice over the past week but whenever i move it (its a laptop) it seems to go away again. It doesnt show up in boot menu, device manager, or My Computer. I tried opening up...

Hey, I tried to search for this problem but could not find what I was looking for. I downloaded Windows 7 64 bit from my university via the MSDN AA program. I know that I need a clean install to upgrade this PC from XP to Windows 7. I downloaded the files and made the iso which I then burned...

I can't seem to get my DVD drive to work properly on Windows 7 64-bit. Here are my specs: Motherboard = Gigabyte P55-UD3R DVD Drive = NEC ND-3540A At first, the drive was not detecting any DVDs. However, now the drive detects DVDs after about 3-4 minutes of spinning but then takes forever to...

I bought a Samsung R720 in July this year running Vista, everything worked as it should and i was very happy. I did however get a notification with it to say i was entitled to an upgrade to Windows 7 upon it's release. Brilliant i thought, better operating system and for just £17. It...

I have an Acer and since upgrading to Windows 7, the DVD drive is only there intermittently. If I start the computer and go to 'Computer', the drive will be there. I double click and it will say 'Please insert a disc'.....no problem. If I start the computer and put a disc straight in, nothing...

Hello folks, I have a easyNote LJ61 with SB700 chipset. The cdrom Slimtype DVD A DS8A3S ATA does not display on my computer browser. When I insert a cd then the drive then it will be shows on the browser but after several second the cdrom drive disappeared again. I think there is a...

Cant seem to play dvds with media player, its the latest version and my dvd drive is set to the correct zone. Stick a movie in and it just doesnt do anything. Any ideas ? Thanks :D

Take it for what it's worth...This is from CNNMoney Website. What code (under advanced settings) are they talking about? Is it "custom install"? That isnt a "code". What is the "code" and where does one type it in? Users of the new operating system say the upgrading process is buggy...

My CD/DVD drive isnt showing up in my computer or in the device manager. My drive is an Optiarc DVD RW AD-750A My computer is a Lenovo ideapad-Y710 laptop I have had this problem for a while. I finally just backed up to an external and re installed windows. but still the problem...

My Optiarc AD-7201s5 DVD-RW drive isn't loading my PC-DVD games. I recently bought Borderlands and put it into my DVD drive and it did not load. I know for a fact my DVD drive works as I installed Windows 7 via the DVD on the same drive. It will also burn DVDs and CDs, and read CDs, but will...

My friends Windows XP SP2 Laptop (1.4Ghz, 384MB Ram) (I know its bad) has been screwing up.:mad: His DVD drive picks what it wants to read (cant install Win7). All except one of his user accounts log in for 10 seconds then blue screen. One of the remainding 2 works fine but when you acces C...

So i'm trying to install 32 bit on my old xp computer. I've followed the steps to a T and everything checks out. I insert the disk and nothing. I go to my dvd drive which the win7 dvd is in and it appears blank. At first i thought great they gave me an empty disk so i popped it into my work...

Hi there, I have recently purchased a few computer parts and upgraded my computer. After putting it together, I switched it on and went to install windows 7 (hardware changes stop me booting my previous installation). (Note: I was previously using this windows 7 on my old mobo etc.) However...

I just installed Windows 7 (from USB) and when trying to install Office from DVD found out that my computer cannot read DVDs anymore. For CDs it works fine. I have TSST corp CD/DVDW TS-H652L ATA device (HP desktop). Tried updating driver, removing device and reinstalling,... no matter what I do...

I'm trying to upgrade my PC from Vista Enterprise SP1 to Windows 7. When I start the upgrade from within Vista it tells me it is copying Setup Files to my computer. Initially there is activity with the CD/DVD drive and then it stops. The screen continues to say Setup Files are copying but...

Can anyone help I've lost MY COMPUTER and the recycle bin icons in my explorer screens also my dvd is not there either but all is working and are showing in computer management and my network . Can use the dvd drive and write to it with nero. Just wondered why i can't see them anymore

I really hope someone can help. I installed windows 7 as an upgrade - everything seemed to be working ok for a few days at least. Went to bed one night, got up next morning and no computer functionality although the computer power light was on. I couldn't even power the computer down using the...

hey So i wanted to install a clean copy of windows 7 so i changed my boot priority and tried to load from my dvd drive but the "Press any key to boot from cd" line does not come it just skips it. My vista cd works fine but windows 7 doesn't. Anyway to solve this? (i cant do clean copy while in...