Windows 7 installation - CD\DVD driver issue on laptop
I'm installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit from an MSDN download onto a new Dell Studio 1558 laptop.
Right after clicking "Install Now" I get the following message in a window titled Load Driver:
A required CD/DVD drive device driv...
Looking for pin-out for 4 pin analogue CD-ROM audio cable.
Remember those 4-pin audio cables which went from optical disk drive to sound card? I'm looking for pin-out for them.
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Macbook optical drive blocked
The optical drive on my Macbook seems to have some sort of blockage. When I try to insert a disk the disk seems to be hitting something inside the drive on the right side (the side nearer the monitor). Thus disks do not fit into the drive. This problem occurred a few weeks ago, but then miraculou...
CD drive won't open...
I have a computer for a client and I can get the cd drive to burn cds and read from them. However, for some reason the drive won't open once it's read something. I've tried to right click on the drive and "eject" but that doesn't work either. The only thing that seems to work is the paperclip-...
Optical drive not recognized in Win 7
Hi,
I have just tried to use a CD in Windows 7, but it doesn't seem to be recognized. I have just used the same CD in the same drive on the same machine when I was booted into Linux, so hardware seems to work fine. I am also sure I used it in windows a couple weeks ago.... Any ide...
A disk is stuck in my slot-loading Dell Studio Hybrid. How can I get it out?
The slot-loading optical drive in my Dell Studio Hybrid has been acting up. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it churns and makes some unpleasant sounds. Now I can't even get it to eject the disc that's in there.
Many drives have an "emergency eject" pinhole, but I don't see one ...
Pri slave drive ATAPI incompatible after setting bios to ACHI for ssd
The title says it all. I installed a SSD C:\ drive, and also have a SATA CD/DVD drive. When booting, the POST screen says that the CD/DVD Drive is ATAPI incompatible. In windows the CD/DVD works fine, but when I want to use a live DVD ie: Knoppix, it won't boot because of the incompatibility....
Windows 7 Can't read Disks
last week my DVD drive failed (or so i thought) i ordered a new one and fitted it today only to find that the same problem still persists.
I have 2 DVD drives, the new one thats a SATA DVD/RW and an old one thats an IDE DVD (kept in to copy from).
When i put disks ...
What's after Blu-ray disks?
I know CDs/DVDs are slowing down due to flash memory and that Blu-rays are on a steady pace as of now, but are there companies out there working on the next step in disk storage? Or is the technology just slowly fading away?
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How to mount a network DVD drive so XBMC can play from it
I'm running XBMC on Ubuntu on an AspireRevo which doesn't have a DVD drive. When I want to watch a DVD disc, I insert it into my desktop computer which has the DVD drive shared using File Sharing. This works fine, as I can mount the network drive as a Source in XBMC and play the DVD files. &#...
Can my DVD burner write "Dual Layer" disks?
Is there a generic way to find out if a dvd-burner can burn dual layer dvd's without trying and potential waste a disk?
Right now it's this drive I'm wondering about but I'd like a s...
DVD Drive won't play DVDs, weird context menu
My DVD drive is no longer recognising DVDs correctly, and I'm not sure how to correct this.
On startup, Explorer displays the drive as DVD Drive (E:) overlaid with a "DVD" label
(I have 2 hard disk partitions, C: and D:)
but when I insert a blank (writ...
DVD stops working in windows 7 64 bit
I have the same problem as described in this question:
http://superuser.com/questions/105928/dvd-cd-rom-drives-stop-working-in-windows-7
I know I have got some games that are using star...
DVD writer doesn't detect, driver corrupt error
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525, and my DVD drive suddenly stopped showing in Windows Explorer. When I checked device manager it shows this error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing."
I tried to disable and re-enab...
Unable to boot from secondary IDE HDD when DVD burner connected as master
I have a (as it seems to me) strange problem with my DVD burner (Sony AD7540A) which I would like to use as master device on a IDE bus. There is a HDD on the bus as well that should be (is) the slave device...
"Audio port not available" on DVD-ROM drive
I'm currently rebuilding a vintage PC (DOS 6.22 only) and I need to replace the IDE CD-ROM.
The one I bought (IDE DVD burner) have the SPDIF (2 pin) and 4 pin audio ports but the drive is labeled "audio port not available". I usually don't care since I can't count...
Software to manually lock an optical drive door
My toddler likes to come up and push the buttons on my PC when I'm trying to work from home, and sometimes he gets the CD or DVD drive open and nearly breaks it by pulling on the door. Is there some sort of software that I can use to manually lock the optical drive doors, as during CD burning (bu...
Computer won't boot from a bootable DVD
My friend gave me his old computer that used to have WinXP on it. I'm trying to load Win7 on it and I thought there was something wrong because it wouldn't boot off a bootable disc, even though I setup the BIOS boot settings properly (I've done this sort of thing a million times).
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Burning mutiple discs at the same time
I'm trying to "mass produce" a DVD so I thought that by hooking up multiple burners to my computer and running multiple instances of Imgburn I would be able to reduce the amount of time I spent attending to the computer. (I need to produce 50 copies.)
I found that even only burni...
CD/DVD-RW drive purchase recommendations
I'm in the process of buying a new CD/DVD-RW drive for my PC. I'm looking in the 20$ to 50$ price range.
Any recommendations? Is there any brands/models to avoid?
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