Why does my PC sometimes not recognise my DVD-ROM and DVD-RW drives?

Question

Like just now, I start up my PC, and they both work fine. Yesterday (and a couple of times in the last few days), it's like they don't exist. They won't open, and Windows Explorer doesn't see them. A re-boot makes no difference.

Answer 1

Ignore those who say it is drivers !!

It is very likely to be that the main PC power supply is either not man enough or is failing. We often see this just after a customer has added another bit of hardware such as a Graphics card or extra Hard Drive etc.

A heavy duty power supply is not expensive and always a good upgrade idea.

Also, installing iTunes has been known to cause this - if you need details on this mail me on [e-mail]

Answer 2

Most likely one of two things:

A loose connection (the cable which connects your motherboard to your optical drives or the power cable which is connected into the back of the drive itself)

Or the above cables are faulty in some way.

You'd be surprised that just "pressing" the power button on your PC case is enough, after time, to slowly loosen connections due to the constant "knock" it has on the components inside.

I'd recommend opening up your PC and firmly, but carefully pushing the connecting cables from both your motherboard and optical drives into their slots.

This will probably solve your problem!

Otherwise, it could be one of many different problems.

Answer 3

Either your controller built into your motherboard is going out or your drives are going out.

Make sure all of your cables are all the way on and none of the connector pins are bent.

Answer 4

may be your driver not working properly, try to reinstall your driver,or your dvd rom was not clean.you can try to clean it with dvd rom cleaner.

Answer 5

if it is blue colour of disk
than it happens with sometimes bc ur dvd writter is of slow speed