CD/DVD player not recognized, driver missing?

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The CD'DVD player is listed in BIOS. But when I put a CD of any kind: music, software install, collection of photo's no CD is recognized. Is there some motherboard driver I didn't install?
 
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is it an optical disc drive?
they dont need drivers.
and even if you dont have sata drivers etc installed for the board win 10/11 have them out of the box.

how do you try to access it? windows explorer?
 
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Yes it is an optical drive. I try to access it with windows explorer. Things worked with Windows 10 but with this upgraded to Windows 11 it doesn't work. It's funny about drivers. There's one listed when you look at the drive with task manager.
 
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sure, but thats very likely the stock driver that comes with windows.
short of some pre-build units from big brands like HP/Dell etc, or laptops, havent seen any OD drive in the past 18y that needed one,
unless for updating fw etc.

well, that's probably it
if it worked before, and doesnt after the update to 11, it might not work with it.
any other pc you can try the drive with to exclude it?
 
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Upgraded, okay. Open device manager and look to see if dvd/cdrom drive is listed. If it is double click and see if it's working properly. Yes or no go to the driver tab and uninstall the device. Re-boot. This may or may not solve the problem. I somewhat think upgrading, and not doing a clean install may have corrupted the pathway to the programs that are used to open the files you want to explore.
 
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doesnt matter, and removing the driver doesnt fix it if the installer is gone or broken.
and even if the any programs are missing, i can still open the drive in file explorer, and see what files/folders are on it, without any sw to open the files.
 
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Waldorf said:
doesnt matter, and removing the driver doesnt fix it if the installer is gone or broken.
and even if the any programs are missing, i can still open the drive in file explorer, and see what files/folders are on it, without any sw to open the files.
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I have no idea what you're saying.
 
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i dont have to have ANYTHING (but the OS) installed and running, to use an ODD.
windows explorer works for that, and you dont need to have any sw installed to access a disc, and look at its content,
no matter if its music/video/files/folders, exception would be a disc with the wrong format (BD in a DVD drive).

its like a car without tinted windows. i can look, and see what is "inside", without having the keys.
 
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If you have an old drive, it doesn't work on a new installation. Maybe with some hacks, but you need to find the device in the Windows Device Manager. If you find it, and it hasn't the symbol with a question mark, you can download some software to make it work if your lucky. You have to ask yourself... do you really need it still these days even when it's SATA.
 
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since win 7 driver is included, and win 10/11 even support NVME drive during OS install, so any ODD thats running on sata will work,
anyone telling ppl to download something to make it work (unless OS is corrupted), has no clue.

ignoring its not up to you what ppl want/or dont want to use, its their stuff and THEY can do what they want.
 
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How do you explane then it didn't recognized it with me too (in windows 7 it did) and brought me a new one and works on windows 11? And if I remember it well, it had a different bandwidth. Don't know about the bitrate, UEFI or protection layers on it.
 
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