Windows Vista & SATA Disk Drive Glitch
07-15-2009, 11:55 AM
My computer is running 64-Bit Vista and the DVD and Hard Drives are SATA. The problem just started recently, but the DVD drive will randomly disappear. It is not recognized by Windows (not listed in My Computer or Device Manager), however, BIOS still sees the drive. Rebooting or putting the computer to sleep and waking it up will make Windows see the drive again.....far from a fix.
Doing some searching, I have found that this is a widespread problem w/o a definite fix and it is not isolated to one type of DVD drive or motherboard. One possible fix involves editing the registry but that would require me to reinstall any software that uses my DVD drive (I don't have the disks).
Has anyone else experienced/fixed this problem (by anyone I mean Joe or Joshin)?
Doing some searching, I have found that this is a widespread problem w/o a definite fix and it is not isolated to one type of DVD drive or motherboard. One possible fix involves editing the registry but that would require me to reinstall any software that uses my DVD drive (I don't have the disks).
Has anyone else experienced/fixed this problem (by anyone I mean Joe or Joshin)?