Samsung DVD writer SH 222 driver download

Maybe for Windows 98, But XP, Vista and Windows 7, Operating system has a default driver.

Fairly sure you don't really need a driver for a dvd drive, atleast for any modern OS its all predone.

Check your device manager for any exclamation points, also check if the dvd drive is hooked up properly.

Maybe for Windows 98, But XP, Vista and Windows 7, Operating system has a default driver.

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I always buy OEM drives, you won't be missing anything that you need. Although understand that there is no performance advantage for SATA III over SATA II for HDDs as they do not come close to saturating the SATA II port.

The bare drive is just that. you will receive a card board box with the hdd in an anti-static bag. No manual and no cable. If you already have a sata cable then you have everything you need. There is really no reason to buy a retail drive unless you like having a shiny box and having a cable packaged with it.

No cables , no software = oem

No, you probably either have additional motherboard controllers or too many services slowing the startup. Check your bios and turn off any unused controllers (like the JMicron), and check to see how many non-essential services are on automatic startup that can be set to manual or delayed startup.

what's the time difference after POST for each machine?

My machine used to be 30 seconds from button press to desktop, but then I needed to enable more controllers on the mobo. it's still like 10-15 seconds from post to desktop, but POST takes a good 20-30 seconds now easily.

You won't get anything other then people guessing at which of those is more reliable. That is a bit of a strange setup in trying to run games directly from an external hard drive. I suppose that will work, but the usb connection is much slower then having a drive connected internally, and things may take a really long time to load. If you laptop has usb 3 support I would probably go for a usb 3 drive based on the way you want to use it.

Did you consider getting a larger internal drive for you machine? That would be a good deal more work, but seems like a cleaner way to do this.

You won't get anything other then people guessing at which of those is more reliable. That is a bit of a strange setup in trying to run games directly from an external hard drive. I suppose that will work, but the usb connection is much slower then having a drive connected internally, and things may take a really long time to load. If you laptop has usb 3 support I would probably go for a usb 3 drive based on the way you want to use it.

Did you consider getting a larger internal drive for you machine? That would be a good deal more work, but seems like a cleaner way to do this.

You won't get anything other then people guessing at which of those is more reliable. That is a bit of a strange setup in trying to run games directly from an external hard drive. I suppose that will work, but the usb connection is much slower then having a drive connected internally, and things may take a really long time to load. If you laptop has usb 3 support I would probably go for a usb 3 drive based on the way you want to use it.

Did you consider getting a larger internal drive for you machine? That would be a good deal more work, but seems like a cleaner way to do this.

Hmm... Well, my machine is a laptop, so placing the HDD internally isn't really an easy option. Had it been a PC, I would have considered it. What about e-sata? I think my laptop has an e-sata port... would that be faster?

e-sata likely would be be faster, but I was more meaning it's an odd setup running games directly from an external drive. I didn't mean adding another drive internally, I meant removing the one you are currently using and replacing it with a larger drive. Running things off the external drive will probably be fine, I just haven't seen others using that setup in general.

e-sata likely would be be faster, but I was more meaning it's an odd setup running games directly from an external drive. I didn't mean adding another drive internally, I meant removing the one you are currently using and replacing it with a larger drive. Running things off the external drive will probably be fine, I just haven't seen others using that setup in general.

Indeed. I am also starting to wonder how good these externals (the ones that come as external drives from the manufacturer) are in terms of reliability.

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sata 2 cables. that is all. one for each drive

Okays.
I can get SATA 3 cables, as both drives are SATA 6GB/s, right?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812123111&name=SATA-eSATA-Cables

Thanks for your help! Much appreciated!

i cant open and download any program in my computer when i try to open the drive c it says access is dinede and when i try to download any thing it say parameter is incorrect.

It's starting to fail,be sure to backup important data!

sell it on ebay/amazon to some unsuspecting fools! tell them it's "new" and buy a can of air and de dust it thoroughly and put it in the original package, sell it at normal price - 10-20% or something, maybe even post some fake SMART data screenshots and then you can buy a new one with the money you got from selling it! *** yeah!

It depends on the size of the drive, but once it runs out of spare sectors you'll start getting data loss. As others stated, start backing up now and replace the drive.

If the disk controller is set to AHCI in the bios, you'll need to either switch it to IDE/legacy or be sure to install the sata drivers during the F6 (3rd party drivers) portion of the XP install.