optical drive

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...

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...

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...

Trying to find out my optical drive model on my laptop. The drive listed in the Device Manager is not correct. It's not a model with a just a screw under the drive and I was trying to avoid having to take too much apart. How can I get to a bootup screen with that shows the primary and...

I recently aquired a computer and ordered acer backup recovery cds to reinstall windows 7 home premium 64 bit the included options all very staright forward.none have worked ! these are the included directions below however when i try either of these options it seems the cd just spins and...

Help! I cannot figure why after loading the drivers for my mobo my HDD is still not being identified by Windows 7 install? after driver has loaded it still says no drive detected! I have the following setup: AMD Phenom II x6 1055T GIGABYTE 890GPA-UD3H Kindston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) 1333Mhz...

Hi Everyone Just built new desktop, all going smooth except for this problem. I have a samsung Blue Ray combo drive, that will read the first disc I place in it just fine, but when I eject that disc and insert another disc, the contents of the first disc inserted remain and no matter how many...

I'm helping a grandson install the Win7 Enterprise free 90 day eval version on his tower from a DVD I burned and have used successfully before on my PC, so it's burned just fine. His homebrew PC (2.66GHz Core 2 Duo/4G/750G HD) originally ran Win7 Home Premium from a disc that came with a Dell...

I have just purchased some upgrades for my rig I now have the following new parts ASUS P7P55D Motherboard Intel I7-860 Processor 4 GB DDR 3 RAM 2 x 500 GB Seagate Baracuda HDD I added them in with my exisiting 2 x Nvidia 8800 GTX in SLI mode 2 x 250 GB Seagate Baracuda HHD I have a PSU...

Does anyone know how many disks you can burn on a DVD writer before it will stop working? I'm talking about hardware limits - not failures or dirty lazer heads. 1000? 5000? 10,000? Do companies post limits?

I'm thinking of buying this computer and was wondering if it is a good setup or not: Here is a breakdown of the Price: So is this a good setup or not?

mmm, i Just changed the boot order (after previous issues) and it said the following "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt \windows\system32\config\system" Any hope of booting it up just once? Is all my data gone? My optical drive has not worked for ages so...

Windows 7 Upgrade paralyzes some PC's with endless reboots. Microsoft downplayed these reports as "Isolated Issues." Problem is described as: Installation hangs 2/3's of the way through upgrade. Then is followed by the message that the upgrade was unsuccessful and Vista would be restored...

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...

Hi guys , I recently installed Windows 7 x64 (dual boot with XP) and I have this problem that I can`t solve. The problem is this: I have LG GH20NS15 SATA optical drive and whenever I insert CD/DVD in it it tries to read it but it can`t and everything is Ok until I try to access my optical drive...

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...

Hey guys, first off I want to say everyone here rocks. I just got done puting together a new computer and turned it on. It seems to post fine other then it saying no drives found. then the dvd kicks in and starts loading windows. it loads for about 20 seconds, then goes to starting windows it...

hi everyone, me and my boyfriend just built a new pc and everything went well except when we inserted the windows 7 dvd..the optical drive does not read it..it only gives us a readme file which says that i have the original copy. the new pc has: ASUS P5QL/EPU LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel...