optical drives

Yesterday, I installed 2 Opical (CD/DVD) drives in My computer. Windows recognized they there, but could not access these or recognize these. So I went into my UEFI and set a couple of drive so they would turn on. In the next five minutes, my computer restarted several and windows would not...

This is now ready on the fast ring. But, I have isolated the known problems. It is worth reading. A small glitch in the install and, important for some (me, for example) is the problem with external optical drives.

RESOLVED via a system rebuild. No clue as to why it was failing. Windows 10 PRO. AutoPlay isn't working in Windows 10. The SETTINGS|DEVICES menu has it turned ON. In Control Panel, it's turned on and configured to PLAY a CD. It's not disabled in the Group Policy editor. Neither of the two...

Hello I tried to post at hardware but it did not respond so I am trying here. A while ago I made home movies into DVDs which were saved to a format by Ashampoo which I have forgotten but I was warned they could only be played on computers . Now that we are moving away from optical drives, I had...

Not sure what is going on here. I had firefox running and suddenly this browser has taken a turn for the worse...adverts up the ying yang. Now it appears I have lost functionality of Windows IE9 browser. Browser says I have IE10 installed...I hit the home icon and I am taken to Firefox. What...

One of my optical drives began having problems seeing discs, either for reading or writing. I figured that it was due to the fact that it had been quite a while since I cleaned it. Therefore I dug out my Philips Cleaner disc, which is actually no more than a disc with a couple of very small...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...