Windows 10: Only one of two optical drives recognised by W10

Discus and support Only one of two optical drives recognised by W10 in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; HI, still checking out changes but most obvious is loss one of my drives. can anybody advise how to locate? 13296 Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by demby, Aug 5, 2015.

  1. DEMBY
    demby Win User

    Only one of two optical drives recognised by W10


    HI, still checking out changes but most obvious is loss one of my drives. can anybody advise how to locate?

    :)
     
    demby, Aug 5, 2015
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  2. RAHERE
    Rahere Win User

    (SOLVED) How to Make your Acer C110 and Acer C112 Projector to work with Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 ; (SOLVED) Acer c110 led projector not working in Windows 8 but listed as compatible hardware

    There may be two problems

    - The projector is seen as an optical drive, not as a display

    - The DisplayPal setting application installs but aborts. Windows 8 recognises it attempting to change windows settings.
     
    Rahere, Aug 5, 2015
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  3. ROHN007
    Rohn007 Win User
    Two drives, two OS (Vista, W10) and one computer?

    In theory, installing the same license on more than one drive, even on the same computer is not allowed. In practice I have seen it working. Just no guarantee it will continue to work. Switching between one HD drive and the other can confuse the activation
    system. Yes, I suspect you will be happiest with Win10 on the SSD. Using the instructions it should be easy to setup a VM that you can run Vista inside of.
     
    Rohn007, Aug 5, 2015
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  4. USCDADNYC
    uscdadnyc Win User

    Only one of two optical drives recognised by W10

    Had a similar problem when using WinXP. And the solution there was -Control Panel, -Administrative Tools, -Computer Management, -Disk Management. This allowed the user to change the Drive Designations of HDDs and Optical Drive(s).
    A similar path in Win10 would be right-clk on the Start Button. -control panel, -system & security, -administrative tools, -computer management, -storage, -disk management. BUT unlike WinXP, in Win10 the "missing" optical drive is NOT There. *Confused*Confused*Confused
    I do not have a solution yet. B/c on Labor Day Weekend, I have need for two Optical drives to be working on the same PC. For Labor Day and other instances b/f Labor Day, I will put back my win7 HDD.
    The Win10 situation is in Win10 b/c: 1)in my Win7 , my optical drives works OK, 2) my Dell PC's BIOS detects both Optical Drives Properly.
    I will check back on this Thread periodically. Hopefully somebody can figure it out. I will probably not work on this for another 2 weeks. Good Luck & Thanks
     
    uscdadnyc, Aug 17, 2015
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