After Installing Win7 - Optical Drives Not Appearing

amiable1 · 02 Nov 2009

I tried adding it as an attachment.

Tricky · 03 Nov 2009

Double clicking on each item from your screen shot should show an error code. What are they?

amiable1 · 03 Nov 2009

Tricky said:

Double clicking on each item from your screen shot should show an error code. What are they?

Code 48.

SillyMan · 03 Nov 2009

Adrian said:

SillyMan said:

Try to update your BIOS and your chipset driver. There are no drivers for optical drives, don't waiste your time searching for it.

Don't be ridiculous!
Contrary to what you posted there are drivers for Optical drives!

OK, please give us a link to one of these drivers. For windows 7, of course. :)

Adrian · 03 Nov 2009

amiable1 said:

Tricky said:

Double clicking on each item from your screen shot should show an error code. What are they?

Code 48.

Good morning Amiable.
Follow the link for news and updates for your Toshiba Optical drive.
TOSHIBA - Storage Device Division SD-R1202 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive Update Information Page

Adrian · 03 Nov 2009

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SillyMan said:

Try to update your BIOS and your chipset driver. There are no drivers for optical drives, don't waiste your time searching for it.

Amiable, as Sillyman has suggested.
Access your bios and review your drive connections.
You have 2 listed as S/ATA and 1 as USB
We are looking to see if the ATA drives are listed as SATA and also you need to see if your USB connections are enabled!

DocBrown · 03 Nov 2009

Ok, here is another crazy suggestion from DocBrown's computer science lab

Power down computer. Disconnect all optical drives. Re-start computer with NON connected, wait till windows fully loads. NOW, power down computer, again.

Connect just one optical drive at a time to see if it finds the driver automatically, are you connected to internet at the time? Power up & down for each drive one at a time to see if you get any positive results. Trial & Error Testing !

" Doc "

Adrian · 03 Nov 2009

Amiable, I tried to google the specs for the DW U 18A drive, it seems to be an older drive that was picked up by LITE-ON, Coe Guys have a lot of patches and updates, I'll attach the link so you can see what we are talking about. codeguys.rpc1.org - Firmwares

kpmadden · 03 Nov 2009

Solution to my problem was the old Vista one.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

Good Luck

amiable1 · 03 Nov 2009

I want to thank everyone here for the help. You should know this is the most helpful forum I have EVER been on! And friendly too! You should all be proud. I think I am going to stick around, even after my problem is resolved to see if I can pass on the positive you have all given me.

Please keep the suggestions coming.

The BIOS is the newest and latest, the mobo chipset is updated with the latest compatible with Win7.

I want to remind everyone of a few things. These drives were all working fine under all builds of Vista, they didn't conk out until I installed Win7. I even used one of the drives to install Win7!

Second, Sony told me these drives DO have drivers. But the drivers are given to MS to be disseminated with the OS. When I contacted them, Sony took the drives hooked them up to Win 7 just to check and make sure the drivers they gave MS were compatible. The drivers WERE compatible! Sony even went so far as to send me a screen-capture of Device Manager to show me.

I am going to try DocBrown's suggestion, in the hopes there might have been some sort of problem with the order in which the drivers were loaded related to the many other drivers.

Thanks again, everyone.

After Installing Win7 - Optical Drives Not Appearing

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