My LG CD Writer ejects automatically without any operations...

Actually it's probaly just got some dust or something in it. What you do to manually open it is take a needle, thumb tack, or safety pin and simply insert it into the tiny hole above the eject button on the dvd drive itself. You'll feel the tip of the button when you push the pin into the hole then it will pop the door and the drive will open properly. This has gone on for cd/dvd drives for years. Usually just the cause of dust or what have you being stuck in the mechanism.

Have you gone through the add/remove hardware? Do you have a compatability wizard, or tried the setup wizard? Check out WINDOWS "Fix it center". I know they have a program that analyzes your hardware, and tries to help you fix any problems. GOOD LUCK

PUT IN THE SMALL HOLE WITH NIDDLE OR PIN ON THE DVD/CD ROM DRIVE NEARLY EJECT BUTTON ,THAT 'S EASILY TO OPEN CD TRAY

how much is the lifetime?maybe the lens need to cleaning.try another CD/DVDs .

Hi, the problem is tape cable inside the writer , replace the tape which in LG Writer. (better to take to service center)

you need a pin..ir a small object...
do you see the small hole in the front of the cd rom??/you need to hit it so that it will open...
try it first...

hope i've help you.. rate me,..

Yes you can use a usb external cd/dvd-rom to any operating system as long as the bios allows you to, most bios's have the capability.

When the external usb drive has been connected power up the mechine, in post it should tell what to press to enter your boot menu without entering your bios and choose usb drive to boot.

There aren't any such drivers.  The drive control protocols are standardized.  Just do Windows Update a few times and make sure the thing's connected when you restart storage subsystems (pretty much a reboot; though installing Nero will of course get things going if you don't love Vista built-in tools.)

DVD combo do not burn DVD's they can only read DVD read CD and burn CD to burn on a dvd you need a dvd writer. A DVD combo is a combination of just a DVD ROM and a CD-RW.

with some models (even of LG) you only get one drive DVD/CD-RW but in dome version it shows as two different drives DVD and CD-RW. consider this as partioning of a drive if its to be analogued to HDD (though its not partioning its just diffrent PROMS)

Hope you understand that there is nothing wrong with your combo its just that you are expecting it to be a DVD-RAM which it is not.

your dvd writer have warranty
so you contact LG customer care is better
you can use their free service warranty