DVD Optical Drive Appears As CD Drive And Doesn't React To Any Disc
Mar 7, 2012My DVD optical drive appears as CD drive and doesn't react to any disc. The latest driver is installed.
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Apr 20, 2012there is some seriously issue with my optical drive. When i put in any DVD inside it just have a sound "like the DISC is running" for 3 times and it stopped. I tried a lot of different disc. It doesn't read the Disc at all..
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Oct 18, 2012Almost new Inspiron 5720- Home Premium. i7 quad.
After installing three or four updates yesterday my laptop now clicks the optical drive a couple of times as I start any video or music file on the hard drive. Not a fatal flaw, but, very irritating just the same. Did a system restore to the morning before the updates- same behavior remains. Installed updates again, removed them one at a time, same thing. Restored to over a week ago, same behavior! What is up with this clicking. The files start and play immediately, no problem there, I'd just like the optical drive to mind it's own business. Movie discs play fine, burns stuff fine, just go to your corner and SHUT UP!
Windows Is Not Recognizing Second Hard Drive In Optical Drive
Jun 16, 2012I have an Alienware M14x R1 with a SSD - Crucial M4 in the main spot and the stock HD in the optical drive. I have never had any issues with any of this stuff before this clean install - and I have done clean installs previously. I also used Parted Magic to Secure Erase my SSD and HD before install.I am experiencing some pretty frustrating problems:
1. I have NO INTERNET CONNECTION (everyone keeps telling me to install drivers...how can I do this without internet connection??)
2. Windows is not recognizing my second hard drive in the optical drive even though it did when I was installing and showed it at the section where you can add new partitions etc
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Oct 12, 2012One drive appears to have duplicated itself by populating any drive letter thats free! Tried simply deleting the ones not needed but they reappear?
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Sep 26, 2012I know, should have a backup, I was actually about to create a backup when the flash drive failed on me unfortunately. My newest backup is from about 5 days ago, so I'd prefer to be able to restore the current files.
I moved the drive over to another computer and tried to save a file but when I checked again the file was gone, like it never saved at all. Subsequently, after removing and plugging it back in the computer did not detect the drive (or see it in disc management). It does show up as a generic USB drive in the device manager, but there are no properties for it.
When I add it to a computer, it still adds drivers for it, but then nothing happens after that. It may also be a hardware problem, since the drive fell on the ground pretty hard a while back, but seemed to be working fine. There isn't an easy way to open it up and check.
I also tried using a few data recovery programs, but they couldn't detect the drive either.
Optical Drive Does Not Working?
Jan 15, 2012I installed a new DVD program and my DVD Rom stopped responding. When I checked he Device Manager It said "A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality. (Code 32)"
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While there are many drivers that I have saved as downloads plus those that can be found online there are drivers that are only available via disk, so having the optical drives consistently function properly is of the utmost importance.
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Optical Drive Not Functioning?
Jun 23, 2011I have a Toshiba Satellite Laptop which is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.I don't know how long it has been since the DVD drive stop functioning. Whenever I insert a factory DVD,CD, or even custom/ blanks my drive does not recognize the inserted device. For some reason, which I cant understand, the drive itself clocks, but the OS isn't recognizing anything. When I checked the drivers, it said they were up to date.
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Jan 8, 2012My cd/dvd/bluray read/write drive on my laptop suddenly disappeared. All "my Computer" shows is my C: drive, whereas I used to have a D: drive. I was uninstalling a few programs before it happened, one of which was Daemon ProTools, which I suspect to be the culprit.
I read that the program TestDisk might be able to help. I ran it but only my hard drive shows up in the program too. When I insert a disk, I can hear the drive reading it, so I know it didn't become disconnected.
Reinstallation With No Optical Drive?
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Sep 16, 2012I just bought a new desktop PC ASUS CM6870 and already I got a problem with windows 7; my optical drive do not play dvd , blu-ray or cd or rw etc... it only play one cd once , after that nothing! I try to find the problm, I watch the motherboard and click CD-ROM Drive properties, on the device status you can read: " Windows cannot start this hardware devicecause its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (code 19)and an otherplace I can't remeber where they write " ATAPI BD E DHI2E3SH ATA device has a driver problem " spend 1200$ and only 3 days of use
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May 12, 2011I have a Toshiba 64-bit home premium. Satallite. I got a pop up message related to optical drive power to turn it on. I checked the notification area where the icon resides. i'm not understanding the purpose. When i point to the icon, it says its off. When I right click on lthe icon the drop down list gives me options; eg. optical drive auto lock >> unlock timed settings >> confirm power on/off >> notify power on/off.
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Jun 1, 2012I took out my internal optical drive from my Sony Vaio F13 laptop and put in SSD. Now I bought USB/SATA cabel and I connected the optical drive to the laptop, it is recognized in windows but it is treated as a hard drive (or removable disk). When I double click it in My Computer it says "Insert a disk into Removable disk. Is there a way to make my optical drive work via USB like this?
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Jun 11, 2009I've a problem with my optical drive. After finalizing the disk during burning when it is again inserted it is just throwing out the disk without reading the contents in it. But it is reading the disks which were previously written using the same optical drive.Those disks which are thrown out when inserted into another optical drive of another system it is reading them.
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Oct 25, 2010My friend has an HP Pavilion DV6 Entertainment Notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit installed. It's only about 3 months old. I rebuilt the unit with a fresh copy of Win 7 HP 64bit as I did not want all the bloat-ware that came with the machine. The issue is that the unit is unable to see the optical drive (no optical drive icon). In the device manager, there is an exclamation mark next to the optical drive. It was working originally. Windows 7 normall takes care of the drivers for this drive doesn't it? Is the optical drive faulty. I've tried un-installing and re-installing but still hasn't corrected itself.
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Feb 15, 2013I did some work on my system yesterday and I removed my DVD/RW drive along with some cable management. Now that you can buy alot of software online and install it without the need for an optical drive, is one even needed anymore?
I have an external DVD/RW (USB2) that I occasionally use with my netbook. Can I use that to install Windows and other software that I still have a disk for (3 or 4 programs)? I'll also use it to burn ISO's (Linux) should I need to.
Boot From An External USB Optical Drive
Nov 12, 2009Does anyone know if it is possible to boot from an external USB optical drive?
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Sep 1, 2009I know how to disable thumbnails system wide and this is not what I want to do.
The problem my system is having is when I place a disc such as an SVCD in the drive and want to copy one of the files. When I go into the folder with the videos, Windows tries to make thumbnails of all the files or at least it tries to gather information on them. The problem is that since it's an optical disc, there is only one laser, so there is a very long explorer.exe freeze while it tries to do so. I guess it is reading a little of each file at a time and trying for all of them at once.
Is there a tweak or a setting I can change without affecting videos stored on the HDDs?
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Could A Faulty Optical Drive Cause System Freezing
Aug 24, 2012I am stuck trying to figure out whether or not an optical drive messing up could have some serious performance repercussions. This is because my computer is freezing pedantically and I took Windows' advice and assumed it was my HDD which was corrupt.i bought a new one, installed it and everything seems all right at the moment, the only problem is is that I am on a fresh install of windows and my optical drive is being temperamental - sometimes working, other times not even realising it has a disc in it. When it does realise it has a disc in it, the applications (such as driver installers) crash mid-way through their process - my computer locks up and begins to freeze again, but this time, I can just eject the disk and everything sorts itself out almost straight away.
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Mar 26, 2011I have just built a system running:Asus p8p67 motherboardIntel i5 2500kAti 6850 graphics carWindows 7 ultimate x648gb ddr3 1333My issue is, after removing my sata optical drive, the computer blue screens at windows loading screen and restarts. If I connect the optical drive back in, everything works fine.I have tested this several times and its always the same scenario.Both my sata3 hdd and normal sata optical drive are connected to the 6G/b ports on the motherboard.I have installed the latest videocard drivers and all my mboard drivers are installed
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