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CD/DVD drive locks explorer, won't play audio discs Hi shiny people, My optical drive was working fine under XP Pro and it was the drive I used to burn and install my copy of Win 7. Once I booted Windows 7 though, it refuses to read CDs or DVDs. With audio CDs both Winamp and Window...

Okay, So three weeks ago I installed Windows 7 RC, and I was happy with it. So happy with it, in fact, that I proceeded to install quite lot of applications on it. Anyway, last night I was installing the Dreamweaver CS4 trial, downloaded officially from their website. All of a sudden my PC...

I have two disk drives. One that uses SATA and an old IDE drive. I was only able to install Windows 7 via the SATA drive and had to disconect the IDE drive to even install. After installing; I hook my IDE drive back up. Windows will detect it, but the drive is unusable right now. Does anyone...

Well I've successfully installed 32Bit Windows 7 on my Compaq computer. Now when i go to install it on my custom computer that already has windows XP home on it i get the following error: Windows has encountered problem communicating with device connecting to your computer. Status: 0xc00000e9...

So, I'm completely out of disc space on my C: drive. It's a 40GB IDE drive. To compensate, I've installed a 110GB SATA drive, which my computer recognizes as drive E:. I'm trying to stripe these drives (Or get Windows to freely write data across both of them as if they were a single drive.)...

Hi, I had everything running great in win 7 rc, then I decided to add in a new HD and win 7 would not boot. So I put everything back the way it was, and win 7 still won't boot. I have 2 500GB SATA Intel Matrix RAID set I created when I first installed win 7. The RAID set comprises 2...

Hi, I am new to the froum adn I tried searching but couldn't find anything like my issue if there is im sorry but here goes. I have a 1tb buffalo hard drive Link Removed The problem I ahve is that when I connect it to my PC running windows 7 7100 it detects the drive fine and I can...

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 am trying to install Windows 7 on my test machine. However, I can't get it to detect any drives - three are 3 disks in the system - it is an IDE disk. When I try and install, it can't detect any disks, but when I try and install through Windows Vista, it detects them. However, then it says...

Hello, Yesterday I've installed Windows 7057 (RC1), I upgraded it from 7048 with a mounted image. I already managed the problem with notepad starting up on each boot up but the new windows boots up for about 10 minutes and when it finally shows my desktop it keeps causing problems. I can move...

Anyone know why when I go to my computer I can't see my IDE 40 gig hard drive? My SATA Drive (which I installed on) works fine but I can't see the IDE 40 gig :) Please help I have backed up files and folders on that 40 gig and need to access it! Thanks Brian

I have installed W7 32 on a laptop. It is running. I am now trying to install W7 64 on my desktop. I can't get past the drive partitioning screen. I deleted the partitions and repartitioned it and formatted it but it is still telling me it can't install on this drive because the hardware may not...

Ok so I tossed and old box together to see how old a machine W7 will install 2. 1ghz Athlon 1.5G PC133 ram 80 gig IDE Boots no problem from the dvd, I get to the starting windows part and the win7 logo appears, the screen then goes black, I get a white pointer arrow and thats it... It just...

Anyone else try to instal this game? I got it installed and patched but when the xtrap loads it crashes. I suspect there is a permission I haven't found that needs to be alocated I've unchecked the read only and I've alos ran it in xp compatability mode. Nothing seams to work I've also used...

Hello. I tried to configure a PC with W7 like this: c:\|d:\ SATAII HDD (two partitions) e:\ IDE HDD f:\ IDE DVD-RW I couldn't. Or could I? I did it but... albeit showing all the drives in the esplorer tree I couldn't explore the DVD I put in. But I could in the command prompt... The board...

My previous O/S (Windows XP Pro) which I having for been running about 5 or 6 years started to crash on me. The XP Pro disk was also scratched up to use and all to store was Vista and the Home Basic 32 bit version was the one I thought my PC could handle. The Problem is every time I put the...