Windows 7 Starter Edition ignoring newly plugged in USB 2.0 optical drive

My system is as follows...

ASUS EeePC X101CH
Intel Atom N2600 processor. 1.60 GHz
1 GB OF RAM
Windows 7 Starter 32-bit
Service Pack 1
.. .and I try 'plug & play' the next optical drive...

Blu - Ray Burner laptop Samsung SE-506CB/RSBDE (USB 2.0)
.. What is completely ignored.  I tried to put disks in there - the drive open and close and spin upward, as you would expect, but it is completely ignored by Windows!  Plug the USB cable produces no response - not even in the Device Manager.  USB plug & play works great on other things, like drives flash, mouse, etc., but not on this.

It's the third optical drive to external USB 2 I've tried.  The first two were a lesser specification, and I picked up their very cheap, so I thought "you get what you pay for", right?  The first was dead as a stiff - it has absolutely nothing, so I threw.  The other triggered at least detection code plug-and-play USB, which is supposed to install automatically - but he did not install correctly in the end.  After trying and trying... and leave it plugged during the re-booting, etc...  All to nothing does not.

So I decided to buy this last Blu - Ray USB external hard drive (which cost more than twice the two other combined!) thinking this will surely work correctly at least.  But Windows 7 does not yet seem to shake hands with her!

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks a lot for this amazingly comprehensive reply Hakanwar!

I was fine it and found it very informative.  Some of the avenues I had already tried, and some I consider even earlier.  I'll keep your answer and refer to it if I have a similar problem again.

But, alas!  The case seems to have fixed itself somehow the new optical drive has finally been detected and I've been able to tell, it is fully functional!  I'm still trying to understand what I did to make it work.  What I did (in response to a suggestion that I've seen in a community post on a related topic) was to download a few utility programs (DevManView and USBDeview) of Nirsoft.com and run them on my system.  I then connected the optical drive via its microUSB cable once again and - Lo and behold! -He was there, and I was running!  Common sense would thought he could not have been the utility programs that makes the disc visible.  So all I can think is that maybe the USB cable not had not been connected properly when I tried earlier.  I remember try several times, and the Clank of the connection about to ensure that she was sitting properly.  But it was not only detect.  Maybe there are 2 'stages' or 'steps' to this type of connector, because (I'm not sure), but it could have a little more deeply he did before and more firmly in place.  I can't just be sure - and now I'm almost worried to disconnect in case he stops working again!  It makes me feel like a fool, if this is really the cause of the problem.  But it's weird, because the road turned upwards before and LED to this subject was the lighting, but it was as if she wasn't there that Windows is concerned.

In any case, thank you for your kind assistance and the other guy who suggested the Nirsoft utilities - they could be useful in the future, because they are waaaaay more complete than Device Manager.

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