Windows 10: Disabled DVD drive goes MISSING

Discus and support Disabled DVD drive goes MISSING in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Please remember my DVD drive is INTERNAL SATA connected. When I disabled my internal DVD drive and shut off or restart my laptop computer, my DVD... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by johns_program, Aug 16, 2020.

  1. Disabled DVD drive goes MISSING


    Please remember my DVD drive is INTERNAL SATA connected.

    When I disabled my internal DVD drive and shut off or restart my laptop computer, my DVD drive couldn't get enabled again.

    While it shows up as a hidden device in the device manager, there's no option to enable it. Uninstalling it totally removes it and doesn't get reinstalled. Regardless if uninstalled or not, I checked my BIOS and it no longer detects the DVD drive. My DVD drive still gets power, but the entire machine no longer detects it. My DVD basically got lost!

    But, I found a weird workaround....

    If I physically remove the DVD drive in and out and then powered my laptop, the DVD drive works again. It's back on the BIOS, on the device manager.

    Ok, while that fixed the problem, I still want to disable the DVD drive on demand in order to conserve battery power and keep it from spinning spontaneously. But, I don't want to always physically remove the DVD drive each and every time.

    What it all boils down to is: why does my DVD drive becomes totally forgotten?

    OS: Windows 10 Home 1909 upgraded from windows 8
    OS Build: 18363.1016
    AHCI: auto enabled

    :)
     
    johns_program, Aug 16, 2020
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  2. Bree Win User

    Dvd drive not showing

    Is this the HP 15r014tx in your system specs? If so, try the steps in this thread....
    https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebo...r/td-p/6186456

    It may be that your DVD drive has a hardware failure (as was suggested in that thread).

    More HP support and diagnosis suggestions here in their Help pages....
    https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03370738
     
  3. DVD Drive repeatedly missing

    Thanks for your suggestions.

    My PC is ASROCK ACPI X64 and the DVD drive is optiarc DVD RW AD 5240S.

    I have tried all your methods from 1 to 3 but none solved the problem.

    Method 1 Step 5

    Run as administrator not available

    Method 2 Step C

    Expand DVD/CD rom drives Not visable

    Method 3 Step 3

    Corrupted files found but not all fixed

    All updates have been installed.

    Any new suggestions?

    Regards:
     
    David Massey 175, Aug 16, 2020
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  4. LRW
    lrw Win User

    Disabled DVD drive goes MISSING

    DVD drive missing from 'THIS PC'

    Yes, I have tried uninstalling both the DVD/CD-ROM drives and the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers from device manager and rebooting. Not sure which controllers you are suggesting are missing. Also cleaned the laser.
     
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