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• My inner smartdrive dvd player won't read DVDs more.  I have updated to Snow Leopard in Yosemite.

  I am currently using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.  I bought in 2009 iMac with Snow Leopard and have to Lion then updated my current operating system.  The internal dvd player has worked with much fussing, (insert the disc - closing - turn after a wait - by pushing the drive when he jumped on reboot).  If I had the chance after a few hours, the video disc show up on my desk.  When this happened, I was opening the dvd player that was in the Finder and the disc would play. I also tried to open the dvd first player and then insert the disc.  That no longer works.  Yesterday, only it just stop working.  The reader still takes dvd and swirls and click as before but then ejects the dvd. Repeatedly stop and restart is no longer works.  I make sure that the dvd be clean before I use it and have tried many different DVDs without success.  I think it's a software issue.  Does anyone have an idea/instructions a nearly dead grandmother brain that can follow to update or redate back to original factory setting to help this poor Smartdrive not so smart?

  I have no TV, only my computer and phone at low prices.  I need to watch that my library borrowed from the dvd.

  Thank you.

  Try a cleaning CD/DVD

  You can also try to clean by:

  How to clean a Superdrive DVD using a credit card!

  I suspect the optical drive has failed. My 2009 Mac Mini could not shoot with same symptom 4 years ago.

  To confirm a drive failure, insert a Snow Leopard installation DVD and try to start with the C key.

  If this isn't the case, they drive could not be started.

  I would just get an external optical drive, one powered with an AC adapter. The Superdrive Apple USB does not work without a hack.

  This is the Office Mac Pro forum. I asked that your post moved to the forum of Intel iMac or another appropriate forum.

• Portege 3440 - cannot install Windows 2000

  Hello friends :)

  I have a problem with the installation of Windows 2000 on Portege 3440.
  I was running Windows 2000 with the FDD USBB (with driver for PCMCIA of CD-ROM) installation and CD-ROM PCMCIA. "Everything was ok at the moment when I came for winnt ' q.

  When installing without partition on the HARD drive was appeared on blue background information: "could not find a place for a swap file. With partition (FAT32, 6 GB): "Setup could not install the Windows boot loader. To ensure that your C: drive is formatted and that the drive is not damaged. I tried with three other HDDss.
  What should I do to install this system? (Same users do not have these releases)

  Thanks for help
  Adrian

  Hello

  1 don't forget to prepare your hard disk with fdisk (a bootable partition) and format it with the Fat32 file system

  2. start by a MSDos saved in your floppy drive-drive with drivers for your PCMCIA CDrom drive (Freecom)

  3. copy the entire i386 to the W2K installation CD directory your HD, be sure to have loaded smartdrive, otherwise it will take ages!

  4 start again with the saved, go to the i386 directory and start Windows NT

  You can look here for more information about freecom pilots and the bootdisks: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232
  On your 3440 it should be easier than with the R100 because of normal 2.5 "HD 6 GB, but the problem is basically the same

• Portege 3500 will not load XP

  This message to Tom Mannerhagan.

  Tom,
  Am down to the tocdrom of the access and the HARD drive.
  Start A player
  RAMDrive Q
  UBCdrive T
  And a flashing Q:\ > (which is access BACK?)
  You can talk to me through the last part.
  Which folder? How can I copy it a temp on the HARD drive?
  When I insert the XP disk it prompt me? Usually it starts just the starting load.
  Furthermore, it shows only 3 stars on the side. I gave you 10. If I made a mistake and then will try and understand well this time!

  Martin

  Hi Martin

  So sad to hear that you have paid for it but nice to hear that you finally have the access you need.

  -Insert the WIndows XP CD
  -Create a folder i386 to the HARD disk by writing the following after the command prompt: MD c:\i386
  Don't mind large or small letters. If you get an error message that the file already exists, then you must remove the old one.
  Do this by writing

  DELTREE c:\i386

  and confirm on Y
  After that, again try to create the directory by writing
  MD c:\i386

  and copy the contents of the CD to the HARD drive by writing
  xcopy t:\i386 c:\i386/e
  This will take some time so do something else for a while.
  When finished, start the installer with
  c:\i386\winnt

  You will receive a message that smartdrive wolud improve installation speed but I don't think that there is a software cache'ing available on CD and I can't find one on the BootCD so you have to manage without one.

  Good luck

  Tom

  PS thanks for the points

• Various installation with the Portege R100 and Windows XP issues

  Hello

  I recently bought a used Portege R100. It came without OS and I wanted to install XP SP2.

  I know that restorations only work with PCMCIA readers adapted, but the HARD drive is formatted, so there is no recovery possible I guess.
  Here are my problems:
  -with my very old Freecom PCMCIA CD player the Windows installation CD is recognized, and it starts to load the XP drivers until he wants to start copying files installiation--> then I get the blue screen of Windows with the error 00 x 7 (virus or driver)
  -the same thing happens with my former W2k Pro installation disc.
  -With the even more ancient W98SE, strange things are happening too: installation seems to work fine, but when it comes to start with W98SE, for the first time, the system hangs up with pixelgarbage.
  -Make the 6 Bootdisks with makeboot doesn't work anymore.
  -J' also tried MS-DOS! And guess what! It worked! Loading the Freecom drivers and copy of Windows I386 folder on my hard drive with the volkov Commander (something similar to NortonCommander) worked too! So I got hav files on my drive but after running Windows NT in the i386 folder, the system hangs after some time, when it starts to copy the files to a temporary folder.

  So I tried almost everything I know. at this moment I am download knoppix to try it.

  I ran Memtest86 and 9 Diskmanager to test the RAM and HARD drive, finished two withut errors, so the priority of main parts in the installation process seems to work. Maybe it's that my IDE controller is broken?
  I have no idea, WHY does he not move windows!

  Help is hot!

  Thank you

  Christian
  Does

  It should work out that way, run you own your HD first in Fat32format - file-system, otherwise it won't work!
  Don't forget to use "smartdrive' in your BACK-commissioning, otherwise it will take a lot of time, even the 'freeze' is possible.

  See also: http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=19232

• How to remove unused readers from the Explorer

  Under 'Computer' in the Solution Explorer, I have the following discs I want to remove and have no idea how to go to delete them because I don't know what some of them are: removable F: Drive; Compact Flash H:; SmartMedia I:' MS/MS Pro J:; Removable drive K:. CD player (l) Smartdrive WD and my book of K.  The only drive I want to keep is the My Book, and I would like to be known as F: drive.  Can someone provide advice?  Thank you, Terri

  Hi TerriDelaware,

  1. What are the external devices connected to the computer?

  2. on what drive you have Windows installed?

  3 is the drive for CD (L) a drive internal or external?

  Removable disks sometimes appear in computer even if they are disconnected. I suggest that you restart the computer and check if it works.

  You will first need to know what contain all readers and what they are.

  Unless you delete or change the F drive on the computer, you cannot apply the letter F for the my book drive.

  You may need to take the local computer tech shop to find out what are all the readers and to remove them from the computer.

  For more information on changing drive letters refer to the link below.

  Change, add, or remove a drive letter

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  I hope this helps!

  Halima S - Microsoft technical support.

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• Cannot delete files from the external hard drive after copying using Robocopy

  Original title:! VERY DIFFICULT QUESTION! Files that cannot be deleted!

  I did a robocopy and he left during the night and when I came back it was in some kind of loop and my external hard drive was full. The files are not visible in Explorer and if I try to delete them in the command line that fails because some are too long. Urgent I need to redo the space on this external and copy the files to my parents and charity before fly me soon. Please can someone help me.

  * Looks like that I have multiple instances of the same files

  I don't know if you will be able to do this before your flight, but the drive must be partitioned and formatted, reformatted, or scanned for errors of NTFS file allocation table with repairs enabled. Depending on the size of the disk, this could take some time. You can also check statistics of SMARTDRIVE with a utility like Crystal Info disc to see if it is a failure.

  If you do not drive Professional recovery tools available, the native CHKDSK will do in a pinch.

  C:\Windows\System32>chkdsk /?
  Checks a disk and displays a status report.

  [CHKDSK [volume [[path] filename]]] [/ f] [/ v] [/ r] [/ x] [/ I] [/ c] [/ l [: size]] [/ b]

  volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
  mount point or volume name.
  filename FAT/FAT32 only: Specifies the files to check for fragmentation.
  /F fixes errors on the disk.
  /V FAT/FAT32: displays the full path and the name of each file
  on the disk.
  On NTFS: Displays the eventual cleanup messages.
  /R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information
  (implies / f).
  L:size NTFS only: changes the size of the logfile to the specified number
  of kilobytes.  If the size is not specified, displays currently
  size.
  /X force the volume to unmount it first if necessary.
  All open handles to the volume would then be invalid
  (implies / f).
  /I NTFS only: performs a less vigorous check of index entries.
  /C NTFS only: skips, checking of cycles within the folder
  structure.
  /B NTFS only: Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume
  (implies / r)

  The /I or /C switch reduces the amount of time required to run Chkdsk by
  skip certain checks of the volume.

  Any routine review and car repair will take time. CHKDSK is no exception.