After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 my CD/DVD Rom has gone missing. It is not showing as a device and there is no DVD/CD entry in device manager. The drive itself has power and will open and close it just cannot be seen by Windows. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Today (8th August 2015) I turned on the PC and on checking file explorer noticed that an entry for a cd/dvd Rom had appeared, I looked in device manger and there it was, as if by magic. I have looked at the windows update history and it seems that three updates were installed yesterday.

I have a ton of old computers, i have been dabbling in Windows 3.1/DOS 6.22/95. I need to install the CD-ROM Drive on 3.1 to upgrade it to 95 since its the only way i.

I can therefore only assume that one of these updates fixed the problem as I now have a working CD?DVD Rom drive. Thank you Microsoft! Thanks very much for your help. I tried this but to no effect. Disturbingly I backed up the registry before making the changes then when I went to try to restore the registry after the changes were ineffective I discovered the the backup was corrupted. I am considering reverting to Windows 7 which would be a shame as windows 10 seems like a massive step up.

However if I cannot get a CD loaded I will be left with a host of other software issues. I will keep trying for a resolution until the 30 days I have to restore to Win 7 have almost elapsed. Thanks for your advice. I was able to figure this out on my laptop and fix it. I noticed that besides my DVD drive missing that my SSD was very slow like a slow hard drive. It was caused by the generic SATA controller driver Windows 10 installed for the AMD SATA Controller in my system. I had thought of this before and downloaded the latest chipset drivers from AMD but I didn't realize the installer didn't update the SATA controller driver.

I had to do it manually in Device manager. So for anyone else with an AMD based system that's having this problem, give this a try.

Download the latest AMD Windows 10 Chipset drivers at Run the installer which will extract the files to your hard drive and may update some other drivers. When it's done, reboot your system. Open device manager by right clicking 'Start' and then click 'Device Manager'.

Look under 'IDE ATA ATAPI Controllers' and then right click on 'Standard SATA AHCI Controller' and click 'Update Driver Software'. Military Postal Zip Codes. Click on 'Browse my computer for driver software' and then browse to where the AMD installer extracted the files. It should be 'C: AMD'. Make sure the box for 'Include subfolders' is checked then click on 'Next'. It should update the driver and rename it to 'AMD SATA Controller'. Click on 'Close' and then reboot your system.

That's it, after rebooting your CD/DVD drive should show up and work again. I hope this helps.