DVD Drive not showing up. (ASUS X52D)

[GrowTFM]

I put a disc in there nothing happens. BIOS recoginizes the Drive. Windows shows it in Device Manager. Windows Explorer shows nothing. I tried vlc if it can detect it but it doesn't even show up there. There is not even an error code on the dvd drive on device manager. i booted to my Windows installation via dvd disk it worked just fine. So what's the problem?

 

[SchizTech]

The drive may have lost it's drive letter. Look in the disk management panel (if in Windows 8 or higher, right-click the start button and select "disk management" from the menu; in Windows 7 right-click "Computer" in the Start menu, click "Manage" and go to disk management). If you see the drive there, right-click and assign it a letter.

 

[scout_03]

did you check on asus for the driver and software for it

 

[LinuxDevice]

I'm thinking perhaps there is no handler for the DVD format...or the DVD itself has an issue being read...no read, no DVD. Mostly I think a DVD of a type not known (i.e., media type) would end up in a prompt for what you want to use to open it, so more likely the DVD has a read error (it is still possible your system may not be showing you an error for unknown media type, so I wouldn't completely rule out media format).

Have you tried the DVD in another computer? Also, is the DVD a commercial aluminized/shiny DVD, or is it home burned? If home burned there can sometimes be a case of the laser read color to not work well with the dye used in the media (there was a transition period from red to blue for lasers in early years to later years...the dye had to change too or the blue laser might not read it well enough).

 

[GrowTFM]

The drive may have lost it's drive letter. Look in the disk management panel (if in Windows 8 or higher, right-click the start button and select "disk management" from the menu; in Windows 7 right-click "Computer" in the Start menu, click "Manage" and go to disk management). If you see the drive there, right-click and assign it a letter.

i only see
format disk, offline mode, properties and help
and every time i click format disk or offline mode it gives
The specified file could not be found.
but it has a arrow down icon so i dont know if that means anything.

 

[GrowTFM]

did you check on asus for the driver and software for it

Reinstalled driver did nothing

 

[SchizTech]

The drive may have lost it's drive letter. Look in the disk management panel (if in Windows 8 or higher, right-click the start button and select "disk management" from the menu; in Windows 7 right-click "Computer" in the Start menu, click "Manage" and go to disk management). If you see the drive there, right-click and assign it a letter.

i only see
format disk, offline mode, properties and help
and every time i click format disk or offline mode it gives
The specified file could not be found.
but it has a arrow down icon so i dont know if that means anything.

Look in the left-hand pane in the disk management tool, you may see a CD-ROM drive. Right-click in the box in the left-hand pane if you do.

 

[SchizTech]

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[GrowTFM]

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its not even a dvd drive in disk management

 

[SchizTech]

OK. If it's still showing up in the device manager like you said, go there and right-click it's entry and uninstall it, then reboot. If that doesn't work, go back to the device manager and this time uninstall whatever you see under "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" and reboot.