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• Optical drive disappears / disconnects in Windows 7 64 bit

  I have a LG GH22NS30 DVD player and it lately, I noticed that windows 'disconnect' sound (the one where you take something into the USB port) and my DVD player just disappears.  It will not appear in the Device Manager and will not respond when I press the eject button on the tray.

  I looked at some solutions by deleting upper and lower filters and I don't even have this option in the registry.  I also started the computer to 'disable integrity checks' and the disc disappears in time a restart.  I have changed the drive letters too and always disconnects.
  When appears in the player, it works fine.  I can burn, watch movies, read the data, etc.  I connected to the SATA.
  I am running:
  Core i7 920
  EVGA x 58 3 X SLI
  Windows 7
  Any help would be great.
  Thank you
  T

  Hi tripnox,

  Thanks for posting on Microsoft Answers!

  1. run the hardware and peripheral troubleshooting tool.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-SG/Windows7/open-the-hardware-and-devices-Troubleshooter
  
  2. Uninstall and reinstall the cd - dvd drive:
  If the drive is not listed, remove and reinstall the existing drivers.
  To do this, follow these steps:
  1. click on start and then click Control Panel.
  2. click on system and Maintenance, click System, and then click Device Manager.
  Note that if control panel is in Classic view, double-click System and then click on Device Manager.
  3. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password, or click on allow.
  4. in Device Manager, expand CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives, right click on the device CD and DVD and then click on uninstall.
  5. When you are prompted to confirm that you want to remove the device, click OK and restart the computer.
  After the computer restarts, the drivers will be installed automatically.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-SG/Windows7/what-to-do-when-a-device-isn ' t-installed-correctly

  I recommend you update the drivers of CD - DVD drive manufacturers Web site.
   
  Method 3 Firmware update:
  I would also recommend updating the firmware of the CD - DVD drive.
  You may need to contact the manufacturer for it.

  You can also see the article below for further assistance.
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-SG/Windows7/understanding-hardware-and-software-for-64-bit-Windows

  Please let us know if this helps you resolve the problem or if assistance is needed.

  It will be useful.

  Thank you, and in what concerns:
  Shekhar S - Microsoft technical support.

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• optical drive disappears after recovery from sleep mode

  While recovery mode S3 sleep and looking at windows Explorer, a green bar progresses inside the address bar. During this time my DVD RW is present on the screen under the heading devices with removable storage, but as soon as the green bar comes to an end, DVD RW and even the devices with removable storage section disappear.

  This occurs only on standby S3 and I have to reboot in order to keep my DVD RW.

  The DVD - RW is a disk IDE (LG Super Multi DVD drive GSA - 4163B) with an IDE-> Sata converter to allow the use of the sata cable to the motherboard.

  Any suggestions as to why this happens in sleep mode S3 only?

  Hi Peter,.

  What is the brand and model of the computer?

  I suggest you to run the Fixit described in the article and verify.

  Your CD or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programs

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us

  Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  322756
   
  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/)
  How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
   
  If the problem persists, you may need to update the update of the firmware to the last by visiting the manufacturer's Web site.
   
  Hope this information helps. Response with status so that we can help you.

• Optical CD/DVD drive disappeared

  As the subject says really. I've got a s430 and the dirve will not appear in my computer, the device or system information manager. I can open the player according to the normal and when I insert a CD I begins to spin,... but nothing.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you

  Everything works now.

  followed this guide: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/diagnose-and-fix/diagnose-by-symptom/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-4...

  It turns out that my optical drive has been disabled in the bios. Must have happened when I updted the bios I've ever done manually.

• How to disable the icon "power optical drive?

  Hello world
  Anyone know how to disable the taskbar icon "player optical power" or how to disable the service? I don't find in Services, msconfig, not even in parts 3 publishers register Jv16 PowerTools as Cc Cleaner...

  Thank you very much
  Walter

  Hello

  I have the same icon, you can right click on this icon and choose:
  Disable automatic locking optical drive->

  But I don t think it will disappear the taskbar icon.

• Satellite A660 - optical driver turns off when burning DVD

  I have a problem with the optical drive of energy saving options that disables the drive while burning.

  I tried all the suggestions mentioned here [http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Satellite-Laptops-A-Series/Optical-drive-automatically-turns-off-due-to-power-saver/td-p/223654], but it does not help.

  I start at the burn in Ashampoo Burning Studio free, and he seems to be good until the end. When it starts the process of lead-out the popup of the optical signals Drive Power drive is turned off. It's funny because it is still running at the speed of combustion and it will not stop. The reader becomes unresponsive, even I can't the DVD out. Even, that it disappears from the list of devices.

  The only way I thought so far to stop the car and release the DVD is in the shutdown/Hibernate the computer.

  Once the dive starts working again the STRANGE Fn-tab functionality started working and I can turn it on/Off/ejection at will.

  All the burned DVD - s are not valid, and so far I have not managed to burn a single functional DVD.

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A660 - PSAW3E with Win7 Enterprise 64-bit.

  Is there a way to fix this? Remove the optical drive power management?

  Hello

  To be honest I have never heard of this issue, but it appears that the optical drive power management is part of the power of Toshiba configuration utility.
  Part of the Toshiba value added package configuration done Toshiba power utility.

  What you can try, for testing purposes, to remove the Toshiba added value of the system package, restart your computer and try to burn DVDs again to see if the same problem will occur again.

  Toshiba value added package contains several tools such as utility cards flash FN so after his withdrawal, you will not be able to use the FN keys. In any case, after that trial, you can download and install Toshiba value added package again.

  I mean, I know what kind of conflict is there, but maybe you should consider it.

• Optical drive will not burn

  I saw that there are many other positions on this, and although I found others who had descriptions which were similar to mine, the patch did not work.

  My specs:

  Windows 7 64-bit SP1

  H8 HP desktop PC - 1360t

  My optical drive: DH16ACSHR

  My driver for the optical drive is the cdrom.sys, the version of the file: 6.1.7601.17514, date 21/06/2006 driver

  When I bought my computer, I did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. A ran all updates at once and drive perfectly serious. A few weeks later, it will not burn. I use Windows to burn simply .pdf files, and it gets to the point where it says 'burn', but after I click on burn the dialog box disappears. The drive makes noise and rotates the disk and writes data to it, but the dialog box never pops up or check the disk. It shows no more burn % completeness. If I try to remove the disc, the drive does not open. If I open with a paper clip, because the disk rotates, it sure is beating sounds and jams. When I open the drive and the drive, the drive clearly has written data to, but it cannot be read by other readers. It just says: the disc is no longer a Virgin, but I cannot see what is on it.

  I HAVE ALREADY TRIED:

  Remove/uninstall the driver

  Checking the registry entry for the upper and lower entrances, THERE ARE NONE

  Being run/scannow - Windows comes up saying that it could not find any problems, all right.

  Update driver - he says I have the latest driver

  Roll back the driver - he says that there is no driver installed previously

  I had a HP Office before a different model and exactly the same thing happened then. When I first came to this other, it burns very well, so I thought that maybe it was a problem with the previous machine... but then after a few weeks it started doing the same thing.

  I'm confused because when I look at the release date for the driver, it's super old, and he says it's the latest version... but Microsoft lists 50 updates to it at least between then and now, some of them as recently as June. I can't seem to find a way to download this driver common windows by itself and install it this way or the other.

  I refuse to do a complete reinstall because I do not think that it will solve the problem more than temporarily. Within the company, it is the fourth total office with what has happened, and whenever we do a clean install, it works at first but then goes back to the same problem again.

  Hoping someone has an idea where I can get a newer than 2006 for this device driver.

  Hello

  Hope the following patch helps:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us

  Good luck.

• COMPAC PRESARIO CQ61: Driver for OPTICAL DRIVE CD/DVD Presario cq61 laptop

  I could not download the driver for my CD/DVD optical drive on the HP site, message again me 'portlet is unavailable"- can someone send me a link to download the driver for my CD/DVD device.   When I go to 'my computer', the drive of the device does not - it seems to have disappeared just though I it didn't remove.  Run the diagnostics it tells me I need to download the driver for this device - hope someone guide me please on how I can do this.  Thank you

  Hello

  GoTo Sart > Control Panel > system > Device Manager > look down the list and find the CD/DVD drive, right click DVD/CD player and click on set to update driver, then choose to let Windows search for the driver and see if you can install it VIA Microsoft.

  Checkurtech

• Get a Code 10 error "this device cannot start' for my optical drive

  Hello

  I am running a Dell Studio 540 with the following specifications:

  Processor: Intel Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz

  RAM: 4 GB

  HD: 750 GB 7200 RPM SATA

  Graphics card: nVidia 9800GT 512MB

  OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit

  All the drivers and BIOS are up-to-date.

  My current optical drive is an Optiarc DVD +-RW AD-7200 s ATA Device Unit which has now disappeared from "My Computer". By opening the Device Manager, it has a small yellow triangle with an exclamation mark inside. When I click on it that a new window will open and in the device status area, he said:

  This device cannot start. (Code 10)

  Currently, I have tried two methods without success. First, I downloaded the latest drivers/firmware for the optical drive directly from the Dell Web site, but to try to install, I get an error box saying that the "target drive is not properly".

  I also ran the Mats_Run.devices of the Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting services who correctly identified the problem, but said he could not address them and directed me to these forums.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you for your time,

  Donald Lundie

  Hello

  The Code 10 error code is generated when the Device Manager has not enough information or error that spread upwards by device drivers is not recognized by Device Manager. In addition, this error may occur if one of the pilots who needs the unit does not start. If multiple drivers are used by a particular device, it can be difficult to determine which failed.

  As you have already tried updating the drivers for the device, you can just go through the article that talks about the Code 10 error.

  Description of errors related to the 10 Code that generates the Device Manager in Windows on computers

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/943104/

  You can run the fix in the below article data and check if this is useful.

  Your CD or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programs

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/982116

  Hope this information is useful.

  Amrita M

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Optical drive went lack of Vista SP1 based computer laptop HP

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  I have Pavilion dv6000 laptop. I see that the optical drive lightscribe is missing from 'my computer' as well as Device Manager. I deleted iTunes, upperfilters/down filters, re-allocation of places the disk and no troubleshooting as indicated on the site Web of Gear Software. Still, it does not work. I checked with Phoenix BIOS, it's the nit that are listed there.

  During power I see that the drive is powered on and the flashing of the LED. If I insert a media start-up LED flashes but media does not turn.

  Like that, I spent 8 days. After that all of a sudden it is detected. I inserted the CD and started the disk check. Everything went well. Once I try to insert Vista DVD icon disappeared again in Win Explorer.

  Still the same problem. During each boot, the event handler accumulate with the error:

  "The next (s) starting or starting system could not load: cdrom.

  I also saw another error - something like this "... embedded controller. BIOS... Firmare' please me excuse I know more exactly. But he came to know that it is caused by the network controller... ACPI / sleep... etc... things like that

  Configuration: nVidia 7150M GPU, 1 GB of RAM, AMD Turion X 2 clocked at 1.8 GHz.

  Is - this disc is faulty / defective disk controller / defective drivers?

  Please help me. My warranty has expired also.

  The best indicator for the problem is intermittent in the detection of the presence of the device behavior. You probably have a bad connection or a bad cable. Mark L. Ferguson MS - MVP

• List 2 optical drives instead of 1... can not read that DVD does not even detect blank DVD

  I have a strange problem with my laptop (VAIO VPCEG25EN). my vaio displays two optical drives with names DVD RW drive (e) and BD - ROM Drive (H :) as I checked the description of device in under CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives Device Manager it shows FAL 52ZWXE7G SCSI CdRom Device & TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L633F.) I think that this problem has arisen after that I uninstalled it ISO RECORDER 64 bit downloaded from this aid from http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/W7.htm...please link me as now, I'm unable to play any DVD, it detects even the blank DVDs... Please answer soon

  Hi Gurwinder_Singh,

  (1) are you referring to the virtual optical drive?

  (2) do you have applications that create an optical drive to mount the games installed on your computer?

  This could have been created by an application. Try to uninstall the application, and the reader should disappear.

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• HP 1270 DVD optical drive does not work on Windows 8

  Original title: Windows 8 and optical drive HP DVD 1270

  Hello

  I waited a few months and tried all means to get my HP DVD 1270 (Sata) optical drive works on Windows 8 and can not.

  I tried different suggestions from members of this forum, but NOTHING.

  If I re - install Win8 it will 'see' the drive for 24 hours, then disappear and not be reviewed.

  The same drive is always available in XP Pro, Vista Ultimate, and Win7.

  I hope that the long-awaited service pack will address this problem because it's a matter of Windows 8, which must resolve.

  Deric

  Try to go to: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/support-drivers.html . Enter the computer information they request and download and install the necessary drivers/software for windows 8. Hope this helps and if you need any additional aid station and we will be happy to help you.

  The above opinion is mine and mine nothing and does not necessarily reflect that of Microsoft, it's employees, or any other Member of this forum.

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• Need help to install Windows 8.1 on the partition, bootcamp on Macbook Pro 15 "mid-2010 w / no optical drive"

  I tried for almost a week in all possible ways to get windows installed on a boot camp partition on my main SSD 1 TB drive as a partition, or on my HARD drive, which is installed in place of the optical drive.  So far, everything I tried to give me some sort of error at some point in the process.  It seems that many of them are case by case, so I thought that I invite you all and see if you can help!

  I use a Macbook Pro 15 "mid-2010 that I improved with a 1 TB SSD drive as the startup disk.  My optical drive was not functional, so I moved my old 500 GB HARD drive to the location of the optical Bay.  I am also under the latest version of El Capitan (10.11.6)
  Here are my system specs:

  
  Presentation of the material:

  Model name: MacBook Pro

  Model identifier: MacBookPro6, 2

  Processor name: Intel Core i7

  Processor speed: 2.8 GHz

  Number of processors: 1

  Total number of cores: 2

  (By heart) L2 Cache: 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 4 MB

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  Processor speed of interconnection: 4.8 GT/s

  Boot ROM version: MBP61.0057.B11

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  I tried to change the Bootcamp info.plist file for my version of the macbook pro to use a USB stick for the installer.  It seems to have installed correctly but once I partition the disk and restart the computer, it gets stuck on a white screen with the Apple logo and I am forced to make a hard stop and then hold down option to boot into OS X, recovery, or the EFI Boot.

  If I go through the windows installation to start the EFI system, I get an error of:
  "Windows cannot be installed to this disk.  The selected disk is a MBR partition table.  On EFI systems, Windows cannot be installed on GPT disks. »

  I also tried to create a partition by using disk utility, and that too made me an error in the installation of windows.

  So far, the only way that I'm away from windows to run at all has been using the free trial of VMware Fusion 8... but I intend to use windows for more intensive tasks like audio pro, and merger simply does not offer the performance necessary to run these programs.  I'm hoping to install windows 8.1 on my internal SSD or HARD drive, regardless of the work - as long as OS X and files associated with it are left alone.

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  If your computer has an optical drive, you must use the optical drive to install Windows using Boot Camp Assistant.

• I can't put a disc into my optical drive.

  Hello

  I have a Macbook 2010 Pro and over the past 6 years, I have rarely used the optical drive. Recently, I tried to put in a disk but it wouldn't even go.  I have no idea why this would be.

  Any help or advice appreciated!

  Concerning

  You have a hardware problem.  Are you sure that there is nothing inside the DVD player?  If you are energetic, open the MBP, remove the disc and open it.  If this is not the case, make an appointment at an Apple store genius bar for a FREE evaluation.  It is possible that the player has not.

  Ciao.

• You can install Windows on a Mac without an optical drive

  Hey, I have a Mac end 2011 a friend gave to me and he said it was broken. I realized that it was just the SATA port on the motherboard, so I pulled out the optical drive and I put an SSD in it. Now I want to install Windows but Mac says that I am not allowed to because I don't have an optical drive. I tried Abu tools and many other shippers of EFI boot, but none of them does not seem to work! Please help me fast! I am computer LITERATE, so no response even if it is complicated would be very useful. THX

  Have you tried the Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp?

  You can run Windows in a virtual machine, which saves having to restart to Boot Camp. This allows you to access boot Windows and Mac OS.

  Parallels

  VirtualBox

  VM fusion