Missing optical drive... none of the fixes work

I have a Dell XPS 8300 desktop, Windows 7/64, 12gb RAM. Boot drive is a 500GB SSD, and there's a 2TB SATA drive for data. I'm a photographer, so I need lots of data storage. I just purchased a Toshiba MD04ACA500 5TB to use as a data drive (NOT boot). My XPS 8300 can see the drive but insists...

I have an ASUS BC-12B1ST SATA combo drive that works great from a cold boot, but never comes online after a reboot. It's done this since install a year or so ago, and it's not bothered me much because I was leaving the machine on 24/7 for BOINC anyways. I had a MB & processor fry out lately,...

Hi everyone. I am trying to install Windows 7 on my PC, having successfully done so without issue on my laptop. I have tried to burn the ISO file onto various DVD's, all of which have failed. This is not helped by my DVD drive in my PC being dated, IDE. However, I burn the ISO image to...

I'm doing a new OS install, using my the same Win7 64 install disk as before. I do have new drives, but they are just newer versions of my old drives (which died) - and they are pretty standard HP slim drives. For some reason, the OS install will not complete. It's saying that an optical drive...

Hello guys, This is my first thread on this forum so forgive for any kind of mistakes. Well, Recenlty a friend of mine gave me a Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.1 because mine broke and I was in need of another mouse.The first day I used it everything was ok but then Windows 7 started giving...