Hi all,
I have this weird Win problem with my optical drives. Both are DVD drives (plextor DVD writer & Asus DVD Blue Ray writer).
When I'm in Win Explorer both drives are non-existant (they disappear). When I'm in My Computer, however, both drives are present....
Attached are the screen caps that show this.
This all started after installing a new CPU cooler last week. Before that I had no problems whatsoever with either drive. This system's been running about two & a half years now.
My System:
Win 7 Pro (64)
Asus MoBo M5A99x w/ AMD 4170 CPU
8 gb DDR3 RAM
1 gb Nvidia GE Force 550 ti by Asus in a PCIe x16 slot
2 Western Digital 1 tb drives (black) (SATA III) {both single partitioned}
1 120gb SSD (SATA III)
1 Plextor DVD drive (SATA III)
1 Asus blue ray DVD drive (SATA III)
When I ran WinRepair yesterday, I seen that it detected both optical drives as hidden, so I made sure the boxes to unhide them were checked. I was pleased, I thought WR was going to fix my drive problem. Sadly though, both drives were still hidden after rebooting.
![Sad :(](http://www.tweaking.com/forums/Smileys/smillhey/sad.png)
Sadly I had to restore the registry this morning due to a lag issue with my sound (built-in on MoBo) that appeared after running WR yesterday.
As far as I know, I ran WR with
ALL recommendations. I even had to learn how to go into Safe Mode on my system for the first time.