windows 10 dvd drive not showing in device manager

„Most of the time, if a drive is not detected properly, depending on your chipset, it helps to install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager / Intel Rapid Storage or the RAID drivers for AMD chipsets. Some users reporting a missing AHCI driver as a root cause. Tip#2: Also updating chip set drivers may cure this issue.

So it may help to connect the SATA cable for the optical DVD drive with another SATA port. Tip#1: Many boards are using several distinct SATA controllers on a mainboard. I've seen a case, where the 1st disk drive need to be set as boot drive in BIOS to detect optical drives. My suggestion: Check for updated chip set drivers and BIOS update. On some systems the DVD drive will be reported as working in device manager, but is not available in Windows explorer. So check in device manager, if SATA controller provides a driver error. In some cases I've seen SATA driver errors after upgrade to Windows 10. A SATA drive will be connected, using the small cable show below. Modern boards are using SATA controllers to connect an optical drive. In some cases, the drive will be recognized and installed. Uninstall the driver for this device and reboot Windows Launch device manager, search the optical drive entry and double click this item.Ģ.

Windows 10 dvd drive not showing in device manager