Solved Optical Drive Dillema

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Windows 8 only sees one Optical Drive at a time. I have two DVD drives, one is a reader the other a DVD RW. The Bios sees both drives. Windows 8 will see either one or the other but not both. They both worked fine in Windows 7. All other hardware works fine.

Hardware:
One SSD drive
One SATA 2 Hard drive
One Rosewell Memory card reader
One DVD ROM Drive (SATA)
One DVD RW Drive (SATA)

Try this:

theog said:

Try this (1):

Your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programs

Fix problems with CD or DVD drives that can

The CD drive or the DVD drive does not work as expected on a computer that is running Windows Vista

Try this(2):
1) Shut down PC.
2) Physically disconnect the CD/DVD Drive.
3) Reboot to Windows with NO DVD drive.
4) Shut down PC.
5) Physically reconnect the CD/DVD Drive.
6) Reboot to Windows with DVD drive.
7) Check Device status.

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Well that didn't work Dave76, but something else did...

All four SATA slots are filled on my mobo. The optical drive on slot 3 wasn't being seen by Win8, but the Optical drive on slot 4 was. Had Slots 1 & 2 used by an SSD and a SATA2 Hard drive. I rearranged so slot 1 was still the SSD, slot 2 now an optical drive, slot 3 now the SATA2 hard drive, and slot 4 the second optical drive. Now everything shows up in Windows 8.

This shouldn't work but it did, but then Windows 8 should have seen both optical drives to begin with as Windows 7 had no trouble with the original configuration.

Glad it's working.

Might have been a loose connection.