Hi, Sony VAIO VGN-A617B laptop. Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-841S CD-ROM drive. The drive eject button is located outside & to the left of the drive....
Hi all thread subscibers, I've not had the laptop for long - I bought it second-hand. I've now found that the tray can be opened by one of...
Hi Mudcrab, Contacted Sony Support but no response as yet. However, it definitely must be the Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-841S CD-ROM drive that is the...
Hi MudCrab, Tried Safe Mode CD. Same result, Allan.
Hi Cortez, Thanks for the advice, Allan.
Hi MudCrab, Will make a TI Safe Mode CD, try it, then come back. Allan.
Thanks MudCrab. See my reply to Tex re paperclip method. I haven't included the TI Safe Mode on my Rescue CD, only the full versions of TI 9.0 &...
Thanks Tex, but as the tray opens normally using the eject button when XP is loaded I rather think it may be the laptop rather than Acronis TI. I...
Hi, I've made an Acronis bootable CD which loads OK, but I can't get it to eject so that I can insert my True Image 9 backup DVD, ie the CD...
Thankyou for your advice. Will remove NSW but I only reinstalled fairly recently so it may not have the same affect as on your machine.
Thankyou for your reply. The slowdown has been happening over a fairly long period of time. See my earlier reply to DwnNdrty re virus checker,...
Thankyou for your reply. Will try what you suggest.
Thank you for your reply. I regularly use Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum 3 to clean the Registry. Also CCleaner & Norton System Works but less...
Thankyou for your reply. I do all of the things that you recommend but the professional advice I got was to reformat.
Windows XP Home SP2. My PC is running very slowly & I have been advised to format the hard drive & reinstall Windows. The only CD I have is SP1....
Hi Colin, Thank you for your advice. In TweakUI>My Computer>Drives all of the drive letters - A: to Z: - are checked but K: to N: are not...
Hi Kirill, Could not resize in Windows but managed to do so using a bootable CD-R I made using DDS. (By the way, neither my "bootable" DDS CD nor...
XP Home Edition SP2. Disk Director Suite version 10 build 2,117. I need to allocate a drive letter to a partition on one of my two external...
Dear Kirill, Now found snapapi.dll v2.1.0.222 already installed in C:\Windows\system32 which appears to be later than that downloaded by the link...
Hello Kirill, Thank you for your prompt reply. I downloaded SnapAPI v2.1.0.221 but when I started to install it I got an Acronis Drivers Setup...
DDS10.0 build 2,117. XP Home. The hard drive has 2 - partitions, OperatingSystem C: 149GB & NTFS 7.813MB. I understand that the 7.813 is usual &...
Before installing TI9 & Disk Director Suite 10 my computer had a fast bootup. Now it takes 5 minutes for programs to be available after bootup....
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