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    Internal DVD drive not showing up in devicemanager

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Phil, Jun 22, 2009.

  1. Phil

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    I just installed a new DVD drive in my laptop but it's not showing up. There's no drive letter in 'My computer' and it's not in the device manager.

    The BIOS recognizes it. It's mentioned as secondary slave.

    Any ideas?
     
    Phil, Jun 22, 2009
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    Is it there in disk management? Start Run and enter diskmgmt.msc
     
    brncao, Jun 22, 2009
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  3. Phil

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    No it's not there.

    I tried 'Rescan disks', no effect.
     
    Phil, Jun 22, 2009
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    Is it in Device Manager?
     
    namaiki, Jun 22, 2009
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  5. Phil

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    No it's not in device manager.

    I just tried reinstalling the IDE controller, no effect.
     
    Phil, Jun 22, 2009
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    It`s not a pioneer as my Toshiba has a firmware upgrade to fix the following problem "These FW Update solves the error, that the ODD can not be recognized on SATA AHCI mode"
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Jun 22, 2009
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  7. Phil

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    The DVD drive does not boot from any CD. I'm starting to think it's dead or there's something wrong inside the laptop.

    My previous DVD drive did not work either.
     
    Phil, Jun 22, 2009
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    If the drive doesn't boot from any CD and you are sure that you have the correct boot sequence in order, then it is a hardware problem and not an OS problem.
     
    hendra, Jun 22, 2009
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    Try setting it to Primary Slave.
     
    Mastershroom, Jun 22, 2009
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    How do I do that? I don't seen any jumper on it.
     
    Phil, Jun 22, 2009
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    It's a hardware issue. Changing it to primary wouldn't make a difference if he has the correct boot sequence.
     
    Th1nkpad, Jun 22, 2009
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