DVD Drives

Greetings, I have an old Acer Aspire 4310 that I started using again recently. I remember it booted quicker than any computer I ever worked with. The initial boot takes about twenty seconds so I decided to press the ESC key in order to find out whether it was the RAM memory or the HDD that was...

Hi, I have a asus K50IJ that is starting to feel a bit slow. It has 3gb of mem so upgrading it an extra gig seems kinda superfluous (right?). I was thinking about trying to "hack" in an additional drive, SSD drive to be exact without giving up the space that I currently have (300gb) with the...

how do I backup my pictures to disk

Hello, I have a toshiba laptop. My cd/dvd drive will start up bit immediately shuts back down will not play through. But my laptop recognizes it as a working device

I have an old computer with an even older teac DVD rom and it would be fair to say I m a novice - but learning... It palys all data discs but I cannot get it to recognize a DVD purchased from a store. It tells me no disc - I have updated the drivers as per internet forum nstructions and...

Has anybody ever found the answer to the DVD drive not showing up on the device manager list?

Please my DVD/CD-RW drive (H:) cannot read any cd or dvd plate. I went to the device manager and got a message that the drive is working properly, yet when I insert any disk, it cannot play. I would appreciate a help from anyone please.

My dell inspiron 5100 dvd rom cant read any discs. Pls help me. Thanks

my inspiron 5100 recognizes the dvd rom but cant read any disk.. pls help me. :cry:

Hello, i have an acer touchscreen Pc. My dvd drive has stopped working. I cannot load a disc. Troubleshoot says your optical drive has been turned off, please reconnect. As this is inbuilt , this appears impossible... Any ideas?

I've gone through 6 brands of external USB DVD drive. It won't boot from any boot disk I use. I can boot from the internal DVD drive. I can boot from a USB Stick. BIOS text startup has listed the drives when they were connected. I know it sees it and the drive spins up. I have checked the boot...

how to take back up from laptop to cd?

Hello, When i insert CD/DVD into windows XP laptop , my laptop not decting CD/DVD i mean to say CD/DVD shows empty files, What can i do, please suggest me,,, Thank you,

I've tried everything from updating the drivers to changing the bios, but nothing has fixed the "DVD not recognized by computer..." Is this a Windows 7 issue or is it Toshiba's glitch? Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Thanks for your help... Tamara

Hi, I have a Packard Bell Easynote SJ51. It comes with the dvd drive Mashita UJ-870. One day the DVD stopped working. It wasn't even recognised in Bios. On the CD ROM entry in the bios it was None, and i couldn't change it. Although the Bios doesn't detect the device it is detected in device...

My HP Laptop was dropped :(. Now the cd/DVD drive won't open. I tried the paper clip in the hole, tried to gently pull it open but no luck. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. TT

Hello, My laptop was dropped and now I can't open the CD/DVD drive. I tried the paperclip in the hole it won't open. Can anyone help

I have a computer that has no DVD drive, can I install a program that has been copied from a DVD to a memory stick?

my dvd drive quite its a matshita dvd-ram uj-850s ata device it sais its missing or corupt i get error message 39 i have been trying to fix it for two days i dont know what to do