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Had a strange problem yesterday. It wasn't a blue screen of death but a black one that essentially told me that I needed to insert a boot disk or something like that. I rebooted and Windows came up again. Went to youtube and the same thing happened after about ten minutes. Ran SFC scan and...

CDburner Xp claims the DVD-R is not useable either because it's of poor quality or incompatible with the drive. My computer can definitely read the old DVD-Rs I made with this very drive, just not write to any new DVD-R disks. I've tried different DVD-Rs, Verbatim, TDK and another. Nothing works.

Just tested imgburn with DVD-RW and that definitely works. Only the DVD-R doesn't work. Same with Pro producer.

This is what I'm getting on the log for IMG: W 08:45:48 Failed to Write Sectors 0 - 31 - Reason: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. W 08:45:48 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 08:45:49 Retry Failed - Reason: Power On, Reset, or Bus Device Reset Occurred W 08:45:49...

Hope it's not a laser issue. Are you saying one writes to DVD-R and the other to DVD-RW? I used the Windows 8 program, Imgburn, and Cyberlink Pro producer. I have used the latter to burn DVD-Rs before. I haven't burned a DVD since my hard drive went down last year. Could it be possible that...

I have a strange problem where I can write to DVD-RW disks but not to DVD-R disks. I used to be able to do both with the hardware I'm using (Liteon Ihas 524). Any ideas on what's wrong or how to fix this?

You should also be aware that if you're sharing a computer, and another person signs in, you will have to type in your password again. Fairly annoying if you're working at home (and of course your trust your family). A local account is another option, but if you are using Skydrive, it won't...

Finally got around to reinstalling Avast. It looks like the latest version solved the USB problem.

Has anyone had a problem with Avast turning off USB ports? After weeks of stable computer use, I tried using Avast once again, but I noticed when I restarted, my USB mouse no longer worked. I moved it to another USB slot and it worked, so I didn't worry about it. Then today, I noticed that...

Thanks. I just decided to switch to a local account. Quick and painless.

I was wondering if there was a way to avoid login when switching between accounts. I have things set up so I automatically login when I start the computer and when I awake from sleep. But if my wife is using the computer and switches to her account, when I switch back, I have to sign in. I...

One last post here since it's related. I continued to have situations where things would get better and then crash. I fully reformatted the disk a couple of times. Ran a virus check (nothing). Ran Malware bytes a few times, sometimes it found things and other times it didn't. In the end...

Got it. Thanks.

Thanks. Got a new hard drive recently (needed it...how in the world did I ever think ASRock was my hard drive and not the motherboard?!), and am taking things slowly putting things on, especially things that seemed to cause problems before. As soon as I'm certain everything's good, I'll set it...

Never knew about this custom refresh. I'll have to set it up.

Well, this is fantastic. So I do have to upgrade to 8.1. I did it once, and found out later that I can't reset or refresh back to 8.1. I have to reinstall 8.0, and then upgrade again to 8.1 I was planning to just stick with 8.0 this time around, but it seems that isn't an option. I'm...

Found it. Had to go to the task scheduler, not Defender itself to find it, though. A little unintuitive.

I'm using Windows Defender, and I believe it's causing freezes on my system. What's happening is that I'll notice my system freezing, and I see a little black clock on the notifications flag which says "scheduled scan." If I do almost anything with the computer, it will freeze. If I do a...

I'll take a look at clonezilla. Don't know a thing about it.

I believe you said, "You can try your luck." I guess I'm just not very lucky...or good at taking hints. ;)