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peacefulguy:
Hi Guys, I have just installed Windows 7 64bit Ultimate into my Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop. The instal went ok and everything is working fine except windows did not detect my dvd burner on the system. Its in the bios but windows 7 did not detect it. I have googled and tried various methods, but nothing works. Even went to Lenovo and updated drivers, still no joy. I installed from the drive with a clean install after fdisking. Its got me stumped, maybe have to go back to xp. I have Windows 7 on my other computer and it does not have this problem, so its not the disk.
Any info would be good thanks.

Cheers

Synbios:
There's a few things you can try.

Go to device manager and see if it shows up there (with a yellow question mark, or anything).

If the drive shows up in device manager and doesn't have any driver problems, the drive may need a driver letter. Go to Administrative Tools, Computer Management, then on the left click Disk Management. The drive may show up there, and you can assign a drive letter to it.

peacefulguy:
I checked that but it doesnt show up in device manager, even ran the microsoft cd/dvd problems and it said no device is preasant. Its there and opens and closes but doesnt show up anywhere, so frustrating  :(

Synbios:
If it's an older machine running 32bit, I would recommend just putting XP back on it if the disk drive is something you use frequently.

I usually don't recommend upgrading 32bit machines with XP to go to windows  7. Other than interface changes, there are little advantages to running it and it takes a bigger performance hit on your machine. Sure, 7 is optimized and faster than Vista, but XP is still widely supported and is definitely faster than 7 in 32bit environments.

IMO, the best 32bit OS in the Windows family is XP Pro. If you have a 64bit machine running Vista, then that's a worthy upgrade to 7. Ideally nobody should be running Vista. All the drivers from Vista work on 7, so you shouldn't lose any devices.

Older laptops however, may not have drivers for Vista/7, especially if they came with XP.

I do not recommend XP Pro 64bit, since driver availability is even more scarce as most people assume that if you have a 64bit machine, you're running 7 these days.

peacefulguy:
Its not an old machine, less than 2 years old and dual core processors, also came with Vista preinstalled. It seems to be a common problem not just with laptops, but still no resolution to this problem. These are the specs.
Lenovo 3000 N200 0687-A31: Intel (R) Pentium (R) Dual CPU T2310(1.46GHz), 1GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 14.1in 1280x800, Intel X3100, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn, Bluetooth, Modem, 10/100 Ethernet, Windows 7 Ultimate!
I dont really want to go back to xp or vista, or I have just wasted the money buying windows 7.

Thanks :-)

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