optical drive

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.

all of a sudden my 2 cd-rw drives are recognized as cd-rom. what can i do to fix this?? no new programs have been installed. i have win 7, 64 bit

Hi, Not sure if I am in correct forum cos' I'm not too sure what is causing my problem. About 2 weeks ago I began having issues with burning files to disc, i.e. drag and drop to a RAM disc. Previously no problems. I also noticed later that my 2 optical drives were being shown as SCSI drives...

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...

About a week ago, I replaced the optical drive on my fairly-new Samsung notebook (model NP300-V5A-A02US) with one of these: Link Removed All it really does is turn the internal SATA data connector for the optical drive into an eSATA socket. It worked well for most of last week. I was able to...

OK so since I have installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on this computer ( it is the first operating system installed on it) I can not write any DVDs .A strange fact is that I can write and read CDs and also read DVDs, but not every time.I got an original CD Album and it's still not recognized by...

Everytime I install Windows 7 I have my optical Drives & removable Media Icons on the desktop, after about a week they disapear if there is no media present in them & then keep disapearing constantly afterwards, has anyone come across this problem or know of a solution, it seems like theres a...

We're here at Computex's pre-show event to get some hands-on time with a few new products. As expected many tablets are present, and one such device is Gigabyte's S1080 Windows 7 tablet, which we almost mistook as Viewsonic's Viewpad 7 . Here you have a 14.94mm-thick chassis housing a 10.1-inch...

Okay I have been having this problem for the past two months or so where my BIOS and/or Windows 7 is only sporadically recognizing my two optical drives and my external HD. I can't seem to find a fix! First, here are my specs: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445 Motherboard...

I'm using Samsung laptop with TSSTcorp CD/DVD TS-L633J recorder. Windows 7 x86_64. Can anyone tell me what are the possible problems (and solutions) of my CD/DVD burner? I bought this new laptop from Dubai, so even if I do have warranty, I can't use it here in my country Philippines, since...

Yesterday, I made the mistake of letting my sister-in-law use my computer (the one I use for work) to burn a CD. I thought she said burn a DVD, which is something I do all the time. However, apparently she downloaded a CD ripping program called CDEX (very legitimate -- doubtful of any...