Posts by Ballz

Ok, new information: I had completely forgotten that when I was upgrading to win7 the installation would hang and eventually fail giving me a error message (forgot what it said), I googled the problem and found that it was with my dvd...

When I was upgrading my vaio nr285e to win7 the installation would hang and eventually fail giving me a error message (forgot what it said), I googled the problem and found that it was with my dvd driver and the fix would be to delete...

Thanks for your help qhn, I'm not sure if you're still following this thread but I just realized a new piece to the puzzle. On the sony driver page it list my drive as the Optiarc™ DVD RW AD-7560A ATA Device but in the device manager it...

Ran the vaio 5 update and it didn't find any updates but tried to burn another cd and it test burned fine but when I actually burned it, it messed up again. How can I be the only one with this problem?

I went to the driver page for my model and there is a firmware updater but when I run it (in compatibility mode) it doesn't update and just says 'no compatible drives found'. So I guess its not recognizing the drive for some...

yes, it has ruined cds in nero, img burn and the windows 7 burner

It chooses the Matshita

I have a nr285e that I have upgraded to win7 and the cd/dvd burning capabilities haven't worked since. The drive is recognized and reads CDs but fails to burn every time leaving me with a stack of coasters. I have tried installing...