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- Last updated on September 28, 2007 by VG

Many times Windows users face strange problem when they

can't see the icon of optical drives (CD/DVD drives) in My
Computer (also known as Windows Explorer or This PC)
window. The drive icon doesn't show in Explorer but the drive
works fine in other computers.

If you are also facing this problem and can't see your optical
drives (CD/DVD Drives/Writers) in My Computer window, this
tutorial will help you.

Simply follow the simple steps given in following methods to

fix the problem:
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If the above method doesn't work for you or if you can't see
"UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters" keys in Registry, then
following steps will help you:

1. Open Registry Editor and go to following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Service
s\atapi\

2. Create a new key Controller0 under atapi key.

3. Select the new Controller0 key and in right-side pane,

create new DWORD EnumDevice1 and set its value to 1

3. Close Registry Editor and restart your system.

That's it. Now you'll be able to see your CD/DVD drive in My

Computer window.

METHOD 3:

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If the above mentioned method doesn't work for you, you can
directly add the DWORD in Registry by executing following
command in Command Prompt:

reg.exe add
"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller
0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001

Make sure you open Command Prompt as Administrator as

mentioned here.

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METHOD 5:

If the above mentioned methods don't work for you, try

following solution given by our reader "Vishal":

1. Open Device Manager using devmgmt.msc command and

enable "View -> Show hidden devices" option. Now locate
the DVD/CD-ROM drives and IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
items.

2. Right-click on each entry present under both "DVD/CD-ROM

drives" and "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" sections one bye one
and select Uninstall.

3. Once all have been removed, right-click again and select

Scan for hardware changes.

The drives will be rediscovered and when the drivers are loaded
back, the drives will re-appear in My Computer window.
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Balazs on September 14, 2016 at 9:15 pm

I tried all method and non of them worked. The device

manager did not showed any cd/dvd drive in the computer.

However here is my solution:

1) Find out the cd/dvd drive name

1a) remove cd/dvd drive from the computer
1b) placed in an ODD box and connected with USB (windows 8
recognized it)
1c) marked up the name of the cd/dvd drive
2) download the right driver from the internet (cdrom.sys)
3) backup the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\cdrom.sys file
4) replace the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\cdrom.sys file with
the downloaded one.
5) reboot computer

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Hopefully it will help someone with the same issue. Good luck!

Bryan on September 23, 2016 at 12:16 am

Method 5 worked for me! After trying the 4 above, plus others I
found elsewhere.

Dhanyavaad Vishal!

Richard on October 14, 2016 at 4:22 pm

Well,well done the method number 4 worked perfectly, so

much thanks for massive help....

sarah on November 6, 2016 at 12:10 am

This helped. Hope it doesn't disappear again

thanls

Matt on November 15, 2016 at 1:51 am

Took longer to work up the courage to use these steps than the
actual execution. Method 5 worked after I used the first two.
That 'reg.exe, etc.' was a little over my head, but the script you
provided worked just fine. I had to reboot the computer several
times, but the DVD/CD drive finally showed up, and it worked.
Could ask for no more, a big thanks!

rugma on December 26, 2016 at 8:00 pm

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its works........ :) thank you so much..

jonj0e on January 11, 2017 at 10:56 pm

Thanks for all the time and effort you went to. I had no luck
with getting rid of BD rom nor getting my dvd/cd rom working
. but thanks to you i was able to give it a real good try
thanks again.

Diogo on February 3, 2017 at 3:53 am

Thanks you so much :)))) the 2nd method worked for me

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Victor Meldrew on February 6, 2017 at 9:41 pm

Thank you so much, Method 1 worked straight away for

me.....Whooo-hoooo "I Don't Beeeee-lieve It. Very grateful to
you.

maggie on March 12, 2017 at 4:13 pm

Hi

I have tried everything I am confused not It my d drive is not

connected afther installing windows 10

Abrar on April 8, 2017 at 7:53 pm

None of them worked.Hlp me please.!

PAUL WAYNE SOCKEY on May 1, 2017 at 9:32 am

Both the disk drive and the atapi controller are present in the
device manager and the device status says working perfectly;
however, I cannot find the icon or d drive anywhere!

Sudesh on May 2, 2017 at 8:55 pm

Thanks for this. It's worked for me.

haris on May 24, 2017 at 11:53 am

i tried every thing but my cd drive dose not works

Rimbuan on May 26, 2017 at 10:38 am

i did it all the methods but still not appearing . what shall i do

Brandon on October 16, 2017 at 1:18 am

It worked.

I was very wary of these methods, registry editing can do some

damage if done incorrectly or for malicious reasons. But I went
through the methods and I ended up on method 3 and it
worked wonderfully. Thank you! I was stumped.
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sherif elkilani on November 12, 2017 at 8:19 pm

The 5th method is the only that worked on my laptop and the
DVD icon show and i could use my DVD perfectly .. but when i
turned off my laptop and switch it back the icon disappear
again
so what can i do ???

Zakaria Mehamdia on December 1, 2017 at 1:53 am

Method 1 worked for me. Thanks a lot for your hard work team
;)

Catfish on January 22, 2018 at 3:19 am

Method 5 worked for me! Thanks.

Shibli on January 27, 2018 at 8:00 pm

Thanks. Number 4 has worked for me.

Suleman on February 20, 2018 at 6:18 am

THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!

THE SECOND METHOD WORKED FOR ME !!
I will keep the remaining methods in mind for possible
problems in the future.
Your site is now one of my favourites!

Omkar on April 11, 2018 at 5:24 pm

Thank You..
2nd method worked.

eddie vidmar on May 25, 2018 at 8:16 am

The thing is that about half of these remedies include "Locate

CD/DVD...." and the issue is that the entry you all say "now click
on" isn't there.

Joe on June 2, 2018 at 4:11 pm

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My dvd drive disappeared after a Windows update running

Windows. None of the above worked for me. At my wits end.
Thanks for getting rid of my dvd drive Microsoft! and for
wasting my time looking for a remedy.

Scott on June 25, 2018 at 6:37 pm

None of the solutions worked for me. The issue with all of
these solutions is the rely on the very problem itself. In Device
Manager with hidden devices shown there is no entry for either
DVD/CD-ROM drives and IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. My USB
optical drive works on all other Windows 10 machines. Just not
the Windows 10 machine I want it to work on. So it isn't the
drive. It is this particular installation of Windows. It used to
work on this machine. This all broke after a Windows update. I
fear the only solution is to reinstall Windows.

Wajahat on July 7, 2018 at 9:54 am

I am using Windows XP sp3 cd\dvd ROM drive is showing but it

is not reading any DVD before it has been working fine I had
also done restoration when it was fine please help me

VG on July 9, 2018 at 8:15 pm

^^ Try to remove and then reinstall DVD drive using Device

Manager.

Help me on July 24, 2018 at 5:20 pm

Guys help mee!!! I tried 5 method and the drives didn't

reappear

Neil on July 28, 2018 at 9:44 am

thanks.. the second method worked

Tom Burnakis on September 29, 2018 at 10:50 pm

THANK YOU!!! I tried about everything I knew , and every hint I

could find on the internet. I even installed a new DVD/CD Drive

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but nothing made it show up until I tried Fix #2. Made the
changes in registry editor and Voila! I've been beating myself
up over this, thanks for the easy fix...wish I'd have seen this 10
hours and two installations ago.

Tom Burnakis on September 29, 2018 at 11:58 pm

Oops - spoke too soon. The drive was discovered and worked
exactly once. I removed the DVD and the next time I tried to
use it the computer could not see it. I rebooted and still
nothing. I tried removing the DVD/CD as in Method #5 and
now I cannot see the DVD/CD entry at all AND I cannot fix it by
using Method #2 as I did before, So, something else is going
on and I don't know what it is.

traveller on March 23, 2019 at 10:33 am

Hi...guys, here's what worked for me:

I reset bios settings, changed SATA device mode to IDE and
enabled CD boot. Then did fresh install of Windows. Just that.

Dawn on April 5, 2019 at 3:37 am

Hi guys, method 1 worked fine and now it responds well,

Thanks for all your help.

Mita on April 16, 2019 at 7:22 pm

I followed methed 5 and uninstalled CD/ROM drives. But after

doing scan for hardware changes it didnt appear back in my
device manager let alone on my computer. So, plz help

bourchak on April 29, 2019 at 11:15 pm

This was really helpful

i fixed my problem with method number 5
thanks very much

GAURI SHANKAR VARMA on May 20, 2019 at 6:43 am

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sir,
I have tried all of them ideas but the solution could not be
done , so please tell me another way to fix this problem , i have
been facing this problem since last one year, pleast tell me
solutions
my windows is 8.1 pro 64 bit

Thank You

VG on May 20, 2019 at 1:11 pm

^^ What problem are you facing exactly?

Joanna Dinlayan on September 1, 2019 at 5:17 pm

Method 5 works for me !!! thank you very much for this very
helpful article.. .

Johny T on September 13, 2019 at 12:26 pm

thanks.. the second method worked

Rajubhai on September 29, 2019 at 3:45 pm

Method 2 Nice team . U a method worked

Derek S on October 16, 2019 at 7:05 pm

Method 4 worked for me (script) perfectly after a restart. Thank

you so much for this. I installed Win 10, dual booting with the
existing Win7. Drive was working perfect on Win7 but not even
showing in Win10 device manager. This fix sorted it - Thank
you

heera on November 19, 2019 at 7:36 pm

cd dvd rom is not showing in device mangager

roel on February 22, 2020 at 5:02 pm

method 1 to 5 didn't worked now my cd dvd drives are gone

😭

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Tom on March 1, 2020 at 11:35 pm

Thank God for Linux! - How else could we deal with the curse
of Windows??

But I come prepared - two boxes on my desk, one runs Linux,

the other struggles with MS miracles ...

Saurabh on April 24, 2020 at 6:25 pm

Method-5 work for me

Vikalp pandey on May 10, 2020 at 9:41 pm

I used the first deleted upper and lower filter now my screen
tura blue after restarting and an error showing inaccessible
boot device plz fix this😭😭😭😭😭 I don't want my data to
lost

Hemish on May 24, 2020 at 4:27 pm

Thanks!
I was in a very difficult situation. I had to flash a Windows ISO
to DVD, but it was not showing up.
You saved me. The 5th method worked for me! It took less than
1 minute.

rakesh jeffrey on July 10, 2020 at 1:44 am

i try all but the method 5 i deleted the drives but i did not see
them again ? what do i do now?... it did not work bro... help me
out

David on July 12, 2020 at 10:14 am

Thanks!!!! This is the most informative article on this problem

on the web. After messing around for over a week, an hour
here and there, I found that Method 4 works. This problem only
arose after the latest 2020 Anniversary version of Windows 10
was loaded. Motherboard is older Asus P6T Deluxe V2 with an
Asus DVD drive

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Raul Penate on July 21, 2020 at 3:20 am

You are amazing! Thank you very much!

Method 2 worked for me :)

frederick on August 6, 2020 at 5:56 pm

Method 1: Worked! It was so simple. Thank you very much.

aamir on August 28, 2020 at 6:54 pm

after uninstalling DVD in device manager it did not come back

after scan,,,what can I do now

Wes on September 2, 2020 at 5:39 pm

Method 1 worked for me!

samson on September 7, 2020 at 8:26 am

It did not work for me what i have to do

sanjaya on October 22, 2020 at 4:04 am

my laptop problem is, not open my dvd/cd in acer

company...please solution ... please help.

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