Windows 10: External BD/DVD/CD Drive Shown as Portable Device

I've had an external Blu-ray optical drive for almost 2 years and up until this morning its worked great. Windows sees the device as a "Portable Device" but not as a CD/DVD drive. The drive gets power, it opens and discs spin, but Windows does nothing when its connected. Can't see it in Windows Explorer either. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, using registry editor and deleting system keys, nothing has worked. How can I make Windows see this as an optical media drive? I'm unsure what caused this issue, nothing about my setup changed in 24 hours.

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Windows 10 and External DVD drive

Hi,

Thank you for keeping us posted.

I would suggest you to open the device manager and check if the drive shows up in device manager.

Follow the steps given below:

1. Press Windows key + R to open the run command.

2. Type devmgmt.msc and press enter to open device manager.

3. Expand DVD/CD-Rom drives and check if the external DVD drive is listed.

4. If so, right click on it and uninstall it.

5. Restart the computer.

Let us know the result.

 

CD/DVD drive not shown along with other drives in Windows 10 after recent update

My PC got WINDOWS 10 AUTO updated recently.

But the CD/DVD drive is not shown where as other Drives, C, D E are shown.

I am not able to operate my CD now. On verification, I found that CD/DVD drive is shown in 'DEVICE MANAGER'.

Now, how to bring it to DESK TOP under Devices and make it operate.

Kindly give your advise step by step.

 

External CD/DVD Drive

Hello everyone,

I'm new on the forum, and I have a quick question.
I have a Toshiba Satellite X200 laptop, it has been dropped and the cd/dvd drive will not read anything, it just sounds like it is loading, and blinks yellow.
I'm going to get an external cd/dvd drive for now until the laptop is taken in (if warranty isn't over).
Is there any specific external cd/dvd drives you guys know are compatible with the Satellite X200? Or will I not have a problem with compatibility.

Appreciate it,
Jeremy.