Question DVD burner not recognized in windows anymore

[ingeborgdot]

I had an older BluRay burner that just wouldn't work anymore. W10 would not recognize it at all. So, I purchased a new burner, but Windows still won't recognize it. What am I doing wrong. Asus DRW-24B1ST. Does anyone have any idea of what to do? I have tried the registry fix, and device manager fix. I'm not sure what is going on.

Thanks.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I found out the issue. Since no DVD drive was working, I thought a little harder. I installed an M.2 drive awhile back and wondered if that took up some sata ports. I moved the DVD drive cable to another sata port, and presto. It now works. 2 sata ports taken up by an M.2 drive. Shoot. I guess I better check my motherboards better next time I buy one to make sure that won't happen again.

 

[George Nasir]

Once Windows 10 has booted to the desktop, choose Device Manager by holding down the Windows key and X. Expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, pick the specified optical drive from the context menu, and select Uninstall. Restart your computer after exiting Device Manager. After detecting the drive, Windows 10 will reinstall it.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I found out the issue. Since no DVD drive was working, I thought a little harder. I installed an M.2 drive awhile back and wondered if that took up some sata ports. I moved the DVD drive cable to another sata port, and presto. It now works. 2 sata ports taken up by an M.2 drive. Shoot. I guess I better check my motherboards better next time I buy one to make sure that won't happen again.

Hey, we've all been there. I have a board that shares two sata ports with the M.2 slot also, unless you run the M.2 in NVMe mode.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I actually just moved it to the other M.2 port on the board, and got my 2 SATA ports back. I'm not sure what I was thinking putting it in the one slot. I guess I wasn't thinking.