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?

nightmare99 · 14 Aug 2010 at 17:22

What optical drives are they? some drives have problems with AHCI and other require firmware updates for AHCI/Windows 7 (some Samsungs for sure).

Danthus · 14 Aug 2010 at 17:34

There we go.

Vanquish-Storm · 14 Aug 2010 at 22:27

ive had this problem on my laptop since updating to windows 7.

If there was a cd in the drive when i boot up in tends to work fine, if not it has problems.

Ive not had much time to have a look into it as ive not been writing any data recently but im going to try find out whats going on

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.

Clairvoyant · 15 Aug 2010 at 13:13

hmm dad had a problem like this a few months ago.

I cant remember the exact thing I did.

But google the problem, got a link for microsoft, which scanned for a problem and then fixed it.

Sorry I cant help more.

(we even bought a new burner as I thought it was the old burner that was bust)