I have not been able to test the drives in another computer. I have a VAIO laptop but this has a different drive. I will eventually get round to...
DVD drive has disappeared No! I thought of that and emailed the supplier who assured me that the drive was working perfectly. It came very...
Sorry to be a wet blanket but the replacement DVD drive did not solve my problem. I assume therefore that I have a motherboard fault. No DVD...
I used thread tools and mark as resolved so why it does not show up I do not know. Anyway I have yet to receive the replacement drive, so in...
I googled the HP part/spares number and found lots, but they were in China or the USA. So I have bought a second hand one from Bullock Bros, UK...
Thank you SpywareDR and MrBill for the suggestions. I have removed the drive, (1 screw), and rebooted, shutdown, replaced the drive and it did...
Thanks for your suggestion, Arie. I have looked at the system information and under Software Environment, System Drivers, I see that the CD/DVD...
HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop PC running Win 7 Home premium 64 bit. My DVD drive used to work fine but stopped playing DVDs and does not show...
Thanks guys for your input. I know what you have said Arie is in the EULA. However I can't understand the logic(?) because if you buy something,...
I bought a used desktop PC, without any software disks from a private individual through ebay and would like to install the harddisk on a new...
Hi BobbyScot, It is definitiely in our blood! I am only a quarter Scottish, but I hate to throw away anything serviceable. I also don't like to...
Thanks for your support, Arie. I am pleased that I am not just a grumpy old man! It's good to see that I am not alone in my, would 'condemnation'...
Hi Arie, I have been to the website and found a number of drivers which are compatible with Windows 7 64 and Vista 64. I downloaded and installed...
Thanks Arie, I will do this and come back with an answer.
This laptop came with the recovery software on drive D: and I made two recovery CDs. I have checked and the drivers (?) are in cabernet files and...
One of the problems with HP is that once your hardware has gone out of warranty they are basically not interested. I have not found them to be of...
No Hibernate with Windows 7 Hi Arie, Thanks for the advice. I tried it and there were no messages, just the next command line. I did check and...
I have upgraded my HP Laptop Pavilion dv9605ea to Windows 7 Home Premium. The laptop has a Athlon 64 x2 TK-55 1.8Ghz CPU and I have upgraded to...
Thank you Arie. The solution you proposed was used and appeared to solve the problem, ie a registry edit. I understand that the drop down menu...
Hi MrBill, Thanks for your tip. I do use the registry cleaner in CCleaner, and usually get very few entries found and I check these before...
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