External Dvd Drive Windows 10

For a major number of HP, Lenovo and Dell laptops/notebook users, upon upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or 8, they found that either the DVD Driver is not detected at all by Windows 10 or if it’s visible in device manager, then it’s not working. You might find a exclamation mark too in device manager for your DVD Drive in device manager. Also, if you insert in disk in DVD ROM, it’ll flash the LED lights on it for a while, but nothing would happen. Also, if by any chance, you have the DVD ROM listed inside My Computer icons, and even Windows is able to send the Eject command to DVD ROM, but not able to read any inserted DVD. Another errors which you may find for DVD Drive in Device Status area:

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Fix CD/DVD Drive Not Detected or Working In Windows 10

Solution 1

This solution is for those users who don’t see DVD Drive icon in Computer or even in Device Manager. Do ensure that you’re logged in Windows with an account with administrator privileges.

Right click on Start menu and select “Command Prompt (admin)“.

Type in following command in Command Prompt:

You can copy paste the command from above. Be careful with spaces.

ROOFULL External DVD Drive USB 3.0, Portable CD DVD +/-RW Optical Drive Burner Writer, Compatible for Windows 10/8 / 7 Laptop Desktop Mac MacBook Pro HP Dell LG Asus Acer Lenovo Thinkpad, Black. Padarsey External DVD CD Drive for Laptop USB 3.0 External DVD-RW Player CD Drive, Optical Burner Writer Rewriter for Mac Computer Notebook Desktop PC.

Reboot your computer.

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If it didn’t worked, reboot and do it again. If still not, keep reading.

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Solution 2

So, if above solution didn’t worked for you, probably you need to create a registry key for DVD drive. Perform below given steps to achieve same:

1. First you need to ensure that the account you’re logged in with is a administrator account or has administrator privileges.
2. Press Windows key + R.
3. When Run command box opens, type in regedit and enter.
4. This shall open “Registry Editor” for you. Navigate to following path in it:

   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesatapi

5. Right click on atapi, select New and then click Key.
6. Type Controller0 and press Enter.
7. Now, right click on Controller0 key and select New > DWORD(32-bit) Value.
8. Type EnumDevice1 and press Enter.
9. Then Right click on EnumDevice1 and select Modify.
10. Update the value to “1” in Value Data box and click OK.
11. Close Registry Editor.
12. Reboot Your Computer.

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Solution 3

1. First you need to ensure that the account you’re logged in with is a administrator account or has administrator privileges.
2. Press Windows key + R.
3. When Run command box opens, type in regedit and enter.
4. This shall open “Registry Editor” for you. Navigate to following path in it:

   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

5. Right click on UpperFilters and select Delete, confirm the deletion by clicking Yes.

   • If you see UpperFilters.bak, do not touch it.

6. Right click on LowerFilters and select Delete and confirm the deletion by clicking Yes.
7. Close Registry Editor.
8. Reboot your Computer.

Any of the above solution must work for you, as it has been known to work for many.

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