Computer stopped recognizing my Blu-Ray Drive?

[Obamargarine]

My bluray drive was working perfectly but then I removed one of my hard drives and the bluray drive stopped being recognized altogether. I tried different SATA ports and cables, but nothing. It won't even read regular CD-roms. I tried downloading the lite-on driver but it says there's no drive in the PC. The drive works on my brother's PC, but I need it on mine.

Any ideas what I can do, short of reinstalling windows?

[gadgetguy]

Does it reappear if you put the hard drive back?

[Obamargarine]

I can't put it back because I sent it back to NewEgg because it had bad sectors. Is there another solution?

[gadgetguy]

Does the BR drive appear during BIOS bootup?
Does it appear in Device Manager?

[Obamargarine]

Thanks for the info,
It does appear in device manager and sometimes in my computer as "cd drive", but when I insert a disc and double click it it says "insert a disc".

Also anydvd doesn't recognize it.

[redwudz]

That is a bit odd. It should appear like any other optical drive. Do you have any other optical drives in the system? The drivers for all types of optical drives are part of the operating system, so nothing to install. If other optical drives like CD or DVD drives show, then I'm not sure what is going on. Especially if the drive shows on different computers.

Since it happened when you removed the hard drive, my best guess is that the assigned drive numbers got scrambled, and your BD drive was moved up one letter to where the old HDD was. That might cause some programs not to find it, but the OS should still be able to. Check in 'Device Manager' first to see if the drive is present, then go to 'Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management' and see if it shows there and under what drive letter. If it's not the same drive letter as before, try to change it back. But that's just a guess.

Are you running Windows 7 on that system? If so, it may be a system bug. Try the W7 site in that case.

EDIT: And this is a computer question. Moving you to the Computer Forum.

[Obamargarine]

Thanks again for the info.

Yep it's windows 7. I'll get it out of the other pc and see what letter it shows under.

[Obamargarine]

Actually the drive doesn't show up in Disk Management. I tried to change the letter of one of the devices and it somehow created a new imaginary HDD that I can't delete.

[HiQ]

Try uninstall AnyDVD & reboot. I had same problem in Windows Vista 64 with AnyDVD. However I use AnyDVD in Widows XP SP3 (Dual boot between Vista 64 & XP) without any problem with DVD/CD drive.