Wn10 Optical Drive Issue

[gamerdude1989]

hi guys

Recently had a RAID 0 drive failure, which forced me to perform fresh installation of windows 10, So while i was at it, i thought it would be a good time to change out my optical drive, as it was faulty..
Just put in a spare LG DVD-RW drive that i had laying around..

But windows 10 wont pick it up?
BIOS detects it fine, also, i managed to boot from CD with it to install windows 10, But within the OS, its not visible in either Computer, or in Drive management...

I tried the Drive in my HTPC, which has Windows 7 installed, it works flawlessly, but wont in my main PC under windows 10..

Anyone else had this issue, and know how to fix it?

I have already tried making a new SubKey in the registry, using HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi with a new key named Controller0... etc

But still not recognising it?

PS: when i plug in my USB DVD-RW, that works fine... Just not the internal one..

cheers

 

[tipes]

Try connecting it to a different port to rule out a dodgy port.

 

[marc2003]

Try turning off hibernation using the admin command prompt:

powercfg -h off

Then power off for a few seconds and try again.

 

[Confused Stu]

Have you tried a Reboot, rather than a Power Off and back on? With Windows 10, power off goes to sleep/hibernate and doesn't do a full shutdown, where Reboot does actually shut the PC down fully and then starts back up.

Father-in-law had an issue with his PC not showing HDMI audio as an option. He'd had the problem for weeks before he told me, and shuts down every day. I selected reboot, rather than shut down, and the HDMI audio showed perfectly once the PC was back up and running.

(Disclaimer - I may be over-simplifying the above, or may even be flat out wrong, but this is my understanding of how Win10 shutdown/reboot works).