Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by toneewa … Repair, and it rebooted. Booting from a USB or external DVD, will let you use the Command prompt. Here, you can… causing troubles, for future problems. Test your recovery partition or drive, system restore, system image, and factory reset, after they are… the 90's. My least favorite backup was burning a DVD on 4x or 8x and it would only read on… Re: ASUS Laptops - my experience Hardware and Software by Reverend Jim … to be resized. >Booting from a USB or external DVD, will let you use the Command prompt. I actually tried… are still a thing, so I could use the 1x drive to recover files. Ever had to install Windows from 39… DVD has a spot - drive won't read it... Hardware and Software Hardware by SAZAR DVD drive won't read one of my DVD disks. It has a spot that is a bit darker and blurry. What is that? Can it be repaired? Re: DVD burner won't recognize dvd disc but is ok for cd's Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by caperjack dvd drives lens reads dvd and cd differently ,its possible as jbennet has said bad dvd drive , lens is bad/weak not strong enough to read /burn dvd anymore,18 mnts is along time if you burned a lot of dvd over that time. also you maybe able to try cleaning the lens with cotton swab and rubbing alcohol Re: How to control hardware using C language Programming Software Development by Adak … control depends on the system and mobo/DVD drive, as well as your operating system. This is not like … DVD drive Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by shashidhargm The DVD-drive is not showing in my computer What's the solution ? DVD drive suddenly disappeared Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by actfray Just bought a HP y6644p with Windows 7. DVD drive worked fine for a week, and then today it disappeared. …'t play. When I clicked on My Computer, the E drive was missing. 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Maybe confusing me… DVD Drive Read Error Hardware and Software Hardware by U-235 …when I remove the disk from the drive the dvd drive does not return to 'dvd ram drive", but keep the inserted disk …name. When I try to watch another DVD, …double clicking the drive opens the new disk continents but I cant… Re: DVD Drive problems Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Jupiter 2 (cd drive refers to cd/dvd drive) I was not aware you had a laptop, I thought …it was a "computer"! Remove the Cd drive… in the laptop. It just slides back (the CD/DVD drive, if you have removed it). You may have Virtual drives … Re: DVD Drive problems Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by gerbil … in Explorer does not. 1. When the drive is empty is shows as DVD Drive but as soon as I put a blank… DVD into it, it shows as a CD drive. 2. When… image creation pgms. DTools, Alcohol... Every DVD drive comes with a list of acceptable and tested DVD makes to use. 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Explorer shows my DVD drive as a CD drive" Explorer will show you the drive type according to what disk type is… it, or was just in it. If you empty the drive and start a new explorer window you should see it… finally given up." It is quite possible that the drive itself gave up months before you did. I just got… DVD drive error: dvd will not read some dvd discs... Hardware and Software Hardware by emwep … My boyfriends laptop (Medion) is having some problems with the DVD drive. It will read some burnt dvds (mostly the movies) but…of media player (power dvd, windows media player, itunes) it says to enter a disc into the drive. I'm not …a driver problem, or an encoder problem or whether the drive is dead. I tried uninstalling the driver and then … DVD Drive problems Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by willyontour I am trying to burn a DVD. I have burned DVDs on my laptop for …not letting me. 1. Explorer shows my DVD drive as a CD drive 2. Whenever I try to burn to a… DVD it tells me there is no valid … device manager I am told that my DVD/CD ROM Drive is MATSHITA DVD-RAM UL850S. (the device is working properly… Re: DVD Drive problems Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Jupiter 2 … Disk Management Select CD/DVD-Rom R-Click > Change Drive Letters > Remove Drive Letter. Change Drive Letter does not work …Management > Disk Management Select CD/DVD-Rom R-Click > Change Drive Letter to D if you have only … Down. Wait a few seconds. Turn on Check your DVD Drive. Good eh? Shut Down. Wait a few seconds. Attach… Re: DVD Drive problems Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by caperjack … DVDs without a problem. Cheers[/QUOTE] no there is no dvd drive ribbon cable on your laptop ! it is quite possible that… your dvd's laser is getting to beak to burn a disk… v2000,[was my daughters for univeristy ]with a uj-840D dvd drive rarely useed for though for burning. just checked my bios… Re: DVD Drive Doesn't Work Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Elenasuperb First try cleaning the drive. Then try uninstalling the dvd drive in the device manager, then reboot and allow the computer to recognize and install the dvd drive. Re: DVD Drive not working Hardware and Software Hardware by sirlink99 I went to the device manager and then to DVD/CD-ROM drives and I have 3 items under it. … Device - no idea MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000 - Virtual CD Drive SanDiskCruzer USB Device - My U3 usb drive I tried updating the driver for… idea what the first one is. Could it be the DVD drive (if so why does it say CD). Also There are… Re: DVD Drive problems Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by willyontour … problem is still there. 1. When the drive is empty is shows as DVD Drive but as soon as I put a blank… DVD into it, it shows as a CD drive. 2. When… I try and burn a DVD from Sonic MyDVD it says "No… Re: DVD Drive problems Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by willyontour … I try to write a file to the DVD drive through windows XP it says it has encountered an…Gerbil said: "Explorer will show you the drive type according to what disk type is currently in … was just in it. If you empty the drive and start a new explorer window you should see… sense. I am putting DVDs in the drive and the DVD RAM is changing to CD… Re: DVD Drive Doesn't Work Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by flojito The drive doesn't work regardless of whether my laptop is plugged in. It simply refuses to open or read CDs. I opened up the IRQ list, but I didn't see anything that looked like it would correspond to a DVD drive. It had a [I]ton[/I] of entries that said "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System," though.