Click on “Troubleshooting” once it reflects in the search results. Click the Start button and type “Troubleshooting” in the search bar.Windows 7 has an inbuilt troubleshooter that detects any hardware changes and fix the problem device right away. This tutorial will help you in fixing your drive with tried and true solutions which in turn save your efforts of reinstalling Windows and programs. Your windows stop responding when you click on the drive. These are some of the common problems with drives in a Windows machine:Ģ. If you own a laptop or a desktop that has a DVD or a CD drive, you must have done a complete re-installation of the Windows OS after being frustrated for countless hours in fixing your drive, atleast once in the life time of that drive. Write the data to a DVD or a CD and give it to the person, right away. It still proves handy when the data needs to be shared or read on the spot and you are out of the Internet or USB storage devices. However, many of us (that counts in millions) still employ the DVD drive to read and write our data/music/video’s etc. USB devices have slowly and gradually been killing the long established CD/DVD drives of our machines.