Missing optical drives.

Danthus · 14 Aug 2010 at 13:37

I have re installed Windows 7, using AHCI in the BIOS.

For some reason my optical drives do not show up in Windows.

If I reboot the PC then the drives are listed in the BIOS etc.

Danthus · 14 Aug 2010 at 17:17

Right I have now managed to get the drives to appear in Windows but I can't burn data to a CD/DVD.

Any ideas?

Danthus · 14 Aug 2010 at 17:34

There we go.

Danthus · 15 Aug 2010 at 12:15

Grrrrrrr

This is getting really frustrating now!!

I can only see the optical drives nm Windows if i set the Gigabyte controller to AHCI mode.

I know there is nothing wrong physically with with the drives as I installed Windows from DVD.

Everything is plugged in the same as it was before I reinstalled Windows, even then the BIOS setting were exactly the same.

The only difference is I installed Windows with the Intel SATA controlled in AHCI mode rather than IDE.