optical drive

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...

I have been unable to find an answer to this and I don't believe it is typical behavior of Windows 7. I am a new user to windows 7 and have noticed that when I insert a cd/dvd or a usb thumb drive, an icon for it appears on the desktop and then dissapears once it is removed. I feel this is...

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...

I upgraded from XP to W7 Pro. I can burn CD-ROMs but not DVDs. My two optical drives are SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A ATA. They worked fine in XP. I've tried updating and uninstalling the drivers from Device Manager, no good. The odd thing is that both Roxio 2010 and Windows DVD Maker will encode...

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 Win 7 Pro bought online during last winter's college student sale. No original CD, but I burned two copies of the download. I'm trying to reinstall Win 7 on a new processor and motherboard. Backed up the old system drive and have been trying a clean install with no success. During file...

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...

Last night i was using both my DVD and my CDrom drives just fine. Windows did some update last night and now the drives dont show up at all. Im not sure what to look for to fix this issue. I have made no other changes whatsoever in between the time that i used it just before powering down last...

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...

Hi basically i brought the student version of windows 7 64bit version i am currently using windows vista 32 bit version therefore i have to do a clean install. i cant get the CD to boot i have checked the that the optical drive is the first to be booted i have also burnt the iso at a speed of 2X...