Optical Drive Disapears from my computer

[Gurd99]

I can access any discs only from fresh restart, after I open drive, any disc I put in won't show up in my computer and all programs will see the drive as empty. Except anydvdHD which can see the volume label & still back up.

I did try swamping the sata cable & also mobo sata ports but it still does it. A new BD-R writer later & it still does it.

My motherboard is old & I can't find any refurbished, any ideas on a possible fix in the os?

my specs: gigabyte p55, 4gb ram, vista ultimate 32-bit, don't know if any more specs or anything are needed.

thanks

[hello_hello]

What if you open the drive in Windows Explorer (right click on it and select Explore or something along those lines) and then use the View/Refresh menu (or CRTL+R), or if you can't open it by right clicking, try left clicking on the drive to select it and then refreshing.

[Gurd99]

What if you open the drive in Windows Explorer (right click on it and select Explore or something along those lines) and then use the View/Refresh menu (or CRTL+R), or if you can't open it by right clicking, try left clicking on the drive to select it and then refreshing.

When I try that, it opens the drive & asks for a disc. Tried what you suggested, doesn't work.



With this problem, the drive icon in my comp sees a disc, its different icon toi when no disc is in drive, but still can't access anything.

[sambat]

This mentions the missing drive problem.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems

[Bjs]

Not knowing how long since os was reinstalled cleanly then use this link from ms

Includes upper and lower filter issue in registry.

[Gurd99]

Thanks all, seems to work, Ill give it some time to see in a few weeks.

[Gurd99]

Deleting the upper & lower filters worked up until now. But the lower filter entry comes back.
Would this be some program causing this? Anyway to find out?

[sambat]

IIRC ImgBurn lists the filters and programs under the 'Tools' tab.

[Gurd99]

IIRC ImgBurn lists the filters and programs under the 'Tools' tab.

So far everything is unknown, but I seem to have found what causes this. It seems to happen when I already have WMP open, soon as I close it, the disc is my computer is recognized & autoplay loads up.

Not sure why or what it means.