Windows 7 Windows 7 Issues: DVD Burning Errors and SATA Drive System Files Inquiry

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Hi Everyone,

This is my first post and I'm not sure I'm in the right section and have a couple of issues so thought I'd post them both here (Sorry if I'm in the wrong place)

Issue 1:

I have a Dell Inspiron 530 and installed Windows 7 Home onto it. PC is running fine but whenever I try and burn a DVD or CD I get the following message:



My drive is the generic drive that came with the PC and worked fine with XP installed.

I've searched everywhere in Dells support pages and Microsofts but cannot find a solution


Issue 2:

I have installed a secondary internal SATA drive tonight. Everythings worked out fine except for some reason, Windows 7 has installed all of this:




Is this normal? Can I just format the drive so it has nothing other than the system files needed?


Appreciate any help that can be offered


Daniel
 
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B-Cat said:
Hi Everyone,Is this normal? Can I just format the drive so it has nothing other than the system files needed?


Appreciate any help that can be offered


Daniel
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There is no "selective" format feature. When you format a drive or partition all is gone, clean off, nothing is left. You should first look through everything and make sure you have backed up anything you want to keep.
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What type of media are you using? If the fastest, the drive might not be able to recognize it. Usually a firmware update will help in this area. You could look for a different speed media to test. It may be hard to find the 2-4x stuff, but you might be able to.


That looks like it was an old XP drive. Have you verified what was on it? You are still booting normally to the Win 7 drive? Just to confirm, you did not install Win 7 with the XP drive installed, right?
 
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The drive worked fine with the media I use when it was XP

Saltgrass said:
That looks like it was an old XP drive. Have you verified what was on it? You are still booting normally to the Win 7 drive? Just to confirm, you did not install Win 7 with the XP drive installed, right?
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I believe it was a new drive from Dell

No did a clean install of Win 7
 
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Thanks for that,

I'm not very advanced with PC's to be honest and I'm not entirely sure what those links are for? lol
 
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They give you detailed information about the hardware on your machine.

Look under my name and you;ll see what I mean.
 
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B-Cat said:
Hi Everyone,Is this normal? Can I just format the drive so it has nothing other than the system files needed?


Appreciate any help that can be offered


Daniel
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There is no "selective" format feature. When you format a drive or partition all is gone, clean off, nothing is left. You should first look through everything and make sure you have backed up anything you want to keep.
 
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