Don't see the optical drive unless you start it up?

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Does anybody else find it a bit disconcerting you don't see the optical drive unless you start it up?
 
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My drive shows up without doing a thing. I have seen a few posts where the optical drives never show up. May be a driver bug in the ports where its not seeing the drive properly.

Jim :geek:
 
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Where aren't you seeing this, explorer?
 
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Hi there
I think in Control panel under folder options you can uncheck the "Hide Empty Drives" .

Cheers
jimbo
 

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@Jimbo - I have that unchecked.

Optical drive not visible in explorer until I do something with it - i.e. pop in a dvd.

Looks ok in Device manager.

I thought that was normal for win8 - obviously not.

Windows Explorer:


WINDOWSEXPLORER.jpg
Xyplorer:


XYPLORER.jpg
Starttmenu7:

STARTMENU7.jpg
 
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Hi there
there might be another setting somewhere --I remember there was a problem with an earlier release of windows with security sometime back when disks would automount and automatically start a setup.exe program if it found one.

cheers
jimbo
 

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Yep, definitely not normal for Win8. My drive happily sits in Windows Explorer's Computer view as well as is the left side menu thing even when I have not done anything with it since a boot, no matter how long it has been.

It seems to be actually better in Windows 8 because the drive never spins at all, not even when I go to access it in Windows Explorer.
Only actually running something off of it starts the spinning.

Ya know the deal....check chipset drivers to be updated, see if there is a new firmware for the drive and make sure there are no upper/lower filters in the reg.

Other than that, curse at the chipset maker so they fix it lol.
 

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