Solved Win 7 can't find my external BD/DVD drive

[Injen]

Hi guys.
So a couple month ago i bought a ASUS BD/DVD drive and it worked great at my Win 7 HTPC. I've used it several times and i've never had any problems with it.

Think it's like 4-5 weeks since i even tested it, but now all the sudden Windows can't find it.
My first thought was -it's broken. But when tested on my laptop and gaming machine it does work and again, no problems with it at all.

*I can hear that typical USB sound when plugged in or out on the HTPC, but nothing change in the device manager, and there's no new hardware if a make a manual search.
*I can find the drive in the bios and it's listed as one of the boot device.

I found a earlier thread here on the forum where some guys solved their problem with a change in the regedit, but that did not work for me.

Nothing is changed on the HTPC, nothing i know about anyway "Windows update", as it just sitting there as a HTPC

 

[Megahertz07]

Open device manager and look for a missing driver.
Open disk management and see if it is shown.

Do a system file check. Run sfc /scannow.

 

[Injen]

As i said before, nothing changes in device manager when i plug in in or our. No missing drivers.
Disk manager only show my SSD and HDD.

Did just run sfc/scannow and it did not find anything.

 

[Megahertz07]

Please edit your profile with ALL your data specs.

Does it show on disk manager?
Did you try a CMD command like dir D:?

 

[Injen]

Does it show on disk manager?

Disk manager only show my SSD and HDD.

Since i have several Win7 computer in the household i just write the specs here
*i3 4330
*ASUS H87I-PLUS mITX
*Silverstone Sugo SG05B 450W
*A-Data 8GB (2x4GB)
*Windows 7 Pro
*An old Intel SSD as C:
*3TB WD Red as D:
*Asus BD/DVD rom as E:

CMD can't recognize E:


EDIT: Got tired with the problem so i used a old backup with Clonezilla and now the BD/DVD rom works again. Still no clue what the cause was since there's no major changes regarding to programs.