optical drive

I have an IDE DVD multi reader/burner (Pioneer DVR-118L) that is showing up in the bios fine I think (I can select it as the first boot drice - it's listed with brand name and everything in the bios) However it doesn't appear in Device Manager or Disk Manager or anything in Windows 7. I have...

Well I am having an issue. The instruction manual says to put the disc in the optical drive and I did so. It then read the disc, and showed up empty. Vista wouldn't read the disc at all. So I then went and restarted my computer, into my BIOS, switched the boot sequence order to optical drive...

In Vista these two worked as expected but once in W7, they've been acting up since. Since using W7, looking in Nero 9 InfoTool showed the first drive - Read Speed 48x and Write Speed 16x while the second drive showed up as Read Speed 12x and Write Speed N/A. I've flashed them both to the latest...

Here is my specs. What I want to know is will I be able to run Win 7 ultimate smootly(32bit)? I am planning to upgrade my RAM to 3 Gigs next month, can't afford to buy an external gfx right now.:( Operating System : Windows XP sp3 Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Motherboard : ASUSTeK...

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate through the House Party program. Everything installed fine, but neither optical drive is recognized in Explorer or through inserting a DVD and waiting for the autorun to take over. I do see the drives in Device Manager and with Disk Management. When I insert the...

Ok this is a strange one. I have two notebooks both with slimtype dvd burners in them. The first notebook is an old advent 7113 and the second is a brand new samsung r519. I have been running the RC of 7 on the old one for a couple of months and just after i had installed it the drive packed...

Speckles, Crashes, etc. in Windows 7 Media Center OK, so I need a hero right now. I’m having graphics issues with my custom media center (no gaming whatsoever) running Windows 7 Ultimate RTM. I’ve tried everything I can think of over the last few weeks, all to no avail. No...

So i couldn't load Windows 7 from my LG Supermulti, so i used the clever USB trick to install it, the problem is that even when im in the Windows 7 OS it's still not recognized. I would assume that the problem would be the DVD Drive itself, but i am also running Windows XP and the drive works...

As of August 3, 2009 these prices I'm about to qoute dropped to $460.00 (Last Time I Checked at New Egg) Here's the List: Video Card- Power Color AX4870 412 MB Price $ 175.00 CPU- Intel Pentium E5200 2.5 GHZ Wolfdale Price $ 71.00 Motherboard- MSI P43 Neo3 F LGA775 Price $ 90.00 Memory-...

Well the problem's fairly simple, my optical drive won't read DVDs on W7. CDs work fine (I tried Diablo 2 & Warcraft 3) but DVDs won't work. I tried one I burned myself, several games and a few dual-layer ones. Windows just doesn't see a disc in the drive and when I want to open the disc from my...

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...

hi i have installed windows 7 on my acer 4520 but problem is my dvd drive works for less than 12 hrs after installation i tried to reinstall many times but it is not working pc shows dvd drive mark but keeps on spinning dvd with out reading i tried to solve this problem through net but failed...

I have Win 7 32 bit build 6.1.7100. I have installed all the updates from windows update except for all the language packs. I have all the drivers I could find for Windows 7, including ATI Catalyst for graphics. I could not find most of the drivers for my Mobo,k but everything seems to be...

I've finally gotten to the point of being able to install Windows 7 from a USB device after formatting my external hard disk and using command prompt to copy all the files. However when i enter the BIOS and choose my Boot Options to boot from USB it said something like NTFLS not found, or...

Hi all, I have the 64-bit RC dual booting on my PC along with XP Pro SP3. Win7 has worked great for a few weeks now, but today a big issue cropped up. I was working on a CAD file (I'm a Civil Designer), when my PC spontaneously rebooted, as though I have pressed the reset key. There was no error...

hi guys, i need help. i am not sure it's windwos 7 problem or my configurations i tried to install windows 7 RC on the below setup (all new), but failed 1. SATA harddisk, WD Cavier 1T 2. mobo, Gigebyte GA-GM-785-S2H 3. SATA optical drive. LG-GGC... the last two components work fine if i...

hi guys, i need help. i am not sure it's windwos 7 problem or my configurations i tried to install windows 7 RC on the below setup (all new), but failed 1. SATA harddisk, WD Cavier 1T 2. mobo, Gigebyte GA-GM-785-S2H 3. SATA optical drive. LG-GGC... the last two components work fine if i...

Firstly I have to say I must have been pretty lucky since looking around the site... Installation after partitioning my HDD (I separated my "My Docs" from my XP installation to a separate 3rd partition for when it comes to uninstallation time) went sooo quickly that I thought there must have...

Hey, I have installed 32bit Windows7 RC built 7100, and i have problems with my Samsung DVD R/RW Drive model TS-H552u. So the drive works but extremely slow, when i load let say COD4 DVD it takes 10-15 min before i can see it in My Computer. And after that installation of COD4 took about 2.5 h...

After having solved the problem, I wanted to describe to the community here a problem I was experiencing while doing a fresh install of Windows 7 RC1. Before I begin, here are my computer's specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz, 775 socket MSI P35 Platinum, 775 Socket Lite-On 20X DVDR w/...