Windows 8 How to get Windows 8 to recognise your DVD Drive

[jackeyres]

1) Surf the web for hours and get nowhere, not least when you try the Microsoft Windows 8 forum and they advise you to cut and paste a registry command which doesn't work. At least not for me.

2) Put your drive's SATA lead in a different socket on the motherboard. You may have to experiment. But it will work!!!

 

[Medico]

Is it not recognizing after the install? Have you tried going to the DVD manufacturer's site to grab drivers for the DVD drive? Mine were installed during the Win 8 CP installation. Win 8 has one of the best driver bases of any OS.

 

[Drew]

Do you have a driver disc that came w/ the optical drive? If so, run that.

Drew