optical drive

So, I must say I'm at my wits end. I've been getting complete system freezes while going about my business, happening while doing various things. I could be simply browsing, playing games, watching video, and sometimes doing nothing. I don't BSOD, everything just locks. The mouse cursor won't...

1. What is your budget? Probably around £400-£800. I usually buy laptops 6 months behind the curve on ebay, from ex business users and find myself with an amazing 3 year warranty thrown in... 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15inch. Will consider 14. 3. What screen...

I just burned an image of Suse to DVD, but before succeeding, I made a number of coasters on two other ODDs. Coasters aren't anything new, but some things about the failures make me wonder. On the first attempts on one drive, Imgburn announced failures at exactly the same spot on 3 attempts...

Not sure if I am in the correct forum for this question but, please indulge me. I use a VPN for downloading Netflix as I live in Japan and this bloody country has not allowed free downloading of Netflix from the US. Anyway, I have found lately that after about 20 minutes of viewing the monitor...

This PC started having erratic behavior, then everything went downhill. Sometimes it will boot up into Windows, but quickly freeze up, with no response at all, no choice but to force reboot. Most of the time it will not reboot at all, giving me a message to select a boot drive. The BIOS...

I have big problems with 8.1, software for DVD and Blu-ray discs will not work because my Blu-ray optical drive "disappears" from the operating system. When checking the listed devices at boot-up hopefully the drive is shown there. But when I launch a program (that used to work with XP and...

Working on an older Dell desktop for a friend of my son. It was her Mom's and she had it passed on to her. She usually uses a Mac but has been using this Dell because it has Office and Quickbooks on it for her businesses (she does home cleaning and also photography). Anyway she brought it to...

I just put together a brand new PC build with all new components. In the middle of a custom install of Windows 7 on the HDD (the system only has one 1TB 7200rpm toshiba HDD), the installation screen went blank and the computer restarted. After restarting, the monitor displayed bootdisk mgr...

I am using Win7, and until very recently, I have been able to burn downloaded music onto a CD in my optical drive, and also play the CD on the CD player attached to my audio system. Now, when I burn a recording, the burn goes to completion, and when I reinsert the burned CD in to the optical...

i have a DVD with two movies on it and wanna watch the movies on my netbook (no optical drive). i will use my friend's PC to rip it to my usb drive.

First off, i apologize if this is in the wrong place or if there's another topic about this, i looked but didn't really see anything. I'm planning on buying an Asus Zenbook UX32VD soon and it comes with a standard 7200 rpm drive instead of an SSD. So because of that i want to upgrade it to an...

I have had a problem with my cd accepting different types of cd's. I purchased some 4x 4.7gb cd-rw disk that I was assured would work on my newer model HP laptop. I had trouble getting a new cd's to format at first, but somehow got one to format and select data. Now my cd works fine with the...

Hello, I took out my internal optical drive from my Sony Vaio F13 laptop and put in SSD. Now I bought USB/SATA cabel and I connected the optical drive to the laptop, it is recognized in windows but it is treated as a hard drive (or removable disk). When I double click it in My Computer it says...

When I try and install windows XP from windows 7 I get this error Link Removed I have copied the cd content from another computer and placed it on a USB drive. Also i tried reinstall XP from this USB stick on my other computer and it reinstalled just fine So is there any workaround this...

Hello all, hoping this is the correct forum for this. History: Back in February I bought a new custom build PC. First PC I've ever owned that didn't come off the shelf at Wal Mart. Had a friend help me spec it out. Asus M5A97 Motherboard AMD FX 4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.6 GHz 8 GB Ram Radeon...

Consider the following scenario. If you connect a hot swappable optical drive to the computer, it might not be displayed in Windows Explorer immediately although it has been displayed in Device Manager. It may take about 10 seconds to be displayed in... Link Removed

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.

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...

Fixes an issue in which an optical drive that is installed on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 does not enter a low power state. Link Removed

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...