optical drive

Microsoft we are in 2009 , why are the main windows installation files distribution method is still DVD's? why not flash memory? Here is why i think why we need to shift to flash memory: Flash memory is faster and more reliable than DVD's (Bonus: no noise & less power to use) 4 GB USB drive...

under windows 7 beta my sony DVD Burner won't recognise a blank Disc. I have looked at disc on another machine and it shows Blank disc but on windows 7 machine it shows as full. has anyone else had this problem. thanks

I have been using windows7 quite a while now, and after a few weeks my MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-8505 ATA Device not reading discs anymore and I cannot burn to either CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R which I can do before with my previous OS, even the one I used during the successful installation of Windows7...

I'm trying to install Windows 7 32-bit build 7000 on a new computer I had just built. Now, this is not because I'm choosing to, but because I couldn't install Windows Vista Home Premium either. I had to settle for something. What happens is that my computer is booting regularly into the DVD...

After installing Win 7 on this computer I decided to use the Easy Transfer system (using migwiz file) to copy documents and settings across from another computer that uses Vista. The transfer occurred OK and then required a restart on finishing. From that point onwards there was no way I...

does not see my dvd drive any chance of telling me how to fix this as i use it alot ? thanks

Missing optical drives OK so you have lost your DVD/CD drive after installing Windows 7 Beta. Heres how to fix it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11*CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Apparently it seems that this is an age old fix for even XP systems. If you...

I have two optical drives, a Sony CD-RW CRX320EE ATA CD-RW drive, and a Samsung (TSST) CDDVDW SH-223F DVD-RW drive. The Sony is a bit old, but the Samsung is brand-new. Both worked fine under Vista. Neither manufacturer supplies downloadable drivers for these, since they're plug and play, and...

I have tried several Emulators and none of them appear to be working with 7... Daemon tools tells you that it is incompatible, and alcohol just reboots the system and starts from scratch every time it boots up. Anyone have any ideas for this?

Before i start, yes i tried the vista drivers and the uninstall reinstall method. Motherboard - Asus P5E-V HDMI (Onboard Ethernet) Graphics - Asus 9600GT HDMI Wireless - Airlive WN-5000PCI v2 Ram - 4x 1Gb Corsair 800mhz Bonded Ram (High Performance) Optical Drive - DVD-Ram 40x/16x (Forgotten...

You can no longer access the CD drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error message after you remove a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in Windows XP: "error code 31" http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B314060&x=12&y=13

For the first few days/weeks that W7 is installed the optical drives work fine, but slowly over time the optical drives work less and less frequently until you cant even see them anymore and it crashes the Explorer.exe. I tried the optical drive fix that I keep reading about with the...

Heres the deal, I had my machine running Vista Ulitimate x64 and everything was working fine. I upgraded to Windows 7. Right off the bat I found that: 1) My optical drive wasnt present (I did however find a fix for this) 2) Comodo firewall did not work 3) Azureus and uTorrent both didnt work...

I went dual-boot, and now my Vista partition is somehow really messed up. I'll give as much info as possible on what I think the problem is: My Windows 7 x64 Partition reads under Disk Management: "Healthy (Boot, File Page, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)" My Windows Vista x86 Partition...

I installed the beta from MS on my Asus M50VM-A1, dual booting with Vista32. It seemed to install fine, but when I booted it up in 7 it didn't recognize my DVD drive. I looked it up and found that apparently it can be caused by a Digital Signing issue, so I disabled Digital Signing requirement...

Current Beta: x64 Build 7000 Hardware: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50N Laptop Model: Asus F8VA-B1 Symptoms: -Some CD/DVDs will lock up the drive and keep spinning (eject will not work) -Whatever action i was doing from that CD/DVD (installing, copying, etc) will be seen as "not responding" but i...

My system: AMD Athlon X2 6000+ Asus Crosshair (nForce 590 chipset) motherboard (2) WD Raptor 75GB HDD in RAID 0 running off the nVidia RAID controller Seagate 500GB SATA HDD (was D:/ for My Documents on my XP Pro setup) 8GB of Kingston HyperX RAM (in XP Pro 32 bit it naturally displayed...

When I originally built my current system, for the DVD RW, I opted for a 'LiteOn'. This was because I'd always found them to be good at what they did and firmware updating was a doddle. Unfortunately this particular drive was not so good. To be fair to LiteOn, I think it was just a case of...

I am running vista home on a toshiba laptop and I installed a game and now when I go to my computer I no longer have a DVD Drive. When I go to the device manager I see my dvd-rom and the drivers. I have checked for updates and they are all current. Some one has said that the game has altered...

I made a thread in the Hardware discussion hoping to find a solution, I won't re-post the question here, but perhaps you could look at it Link Removed Thanks