DVD Drive not found in Windows but in BIOS?

PikKOn · 3 Nov 2007 at 15:18

Hi guys I am unsure of why my DVD drive is not being found inside Windows. I have just completed a fresh install of Windows XP Professional but having gone into the BIOS my DVD drive is recognised however booting into Windows it does not seem to appear. I have tried deleting this registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

But no luck the DVD drive is still not found under Windows. I have restarted the machine after deleting the said registry but no luck. Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, PiKkon^

mikeybhoy · 3 Nov 2007 at 15:24

I think you are only meant to delete the entries for Upperfilter and Lowerfilter under the key, not the whole thing. Maybe you've deleted too much ...

PikKOn · 3 Nov 2007 at 15:28

There were no Upper or Lower filters there thats why I deleted the whole lot... but I backed it up and have now restored it but still no joy

Tk7 · 3 Nov 2007 at 16:49

Does the drive appear in device manager at all? The upper/lowerfilters fix only applies if it shows in device manager, but with a code 10/39/41 error.

PikKOn · 3 Nov 2007 at 17:41

no it doesn't appear there... the device manager that is

mattyrigby00 · 3 Nov 2007 at 18:03

depending on if the controller for IDE is a chipset one or another controller on the motherboard, an ide driver might be required - and if it isnt on the chipset, it might be incompatible with optical drives.

PikKOn · 3 Nov 2007 at 18:16

The Drive was being detected but I did a Windows update and it disappeared... any advice on what I should do... I am going to re-install windows probably solve the problem?

PikKOn · 5 Nov 2007 at 17:07

OK found that the Gigabyte RAID drivers were knocking out my DVD drive. simply don't install those and everything is fine

Other drivers like sound, LAN and Chipset drivers are okay but something is up with those RAID ones :|