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Windows 10 will not recognise CD rom Drive

by Nov 22, 2015 8:27AM PST

Hi Guys just upgraded from windows 7 64bit to Windows 10 and it will not recognise CD Drive there is nothing wrong with the CD Drive as I rolled back to Windows 7 again for a short while and it worked perfectly can anyone shine some light on this annoying problem
Cheers.

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It's likely you need a driver for that drive.
by Nov 22, 2015 8:40AM PST

Look in Device Manager. You'll either see nothing or an entry with ! or ? next to it for the drive. Missing drivers are fairly common for folks upgrading. Worst case you can always buy an external CD/DVD drive for around $25.
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Good luck.

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I have found Remedy
by Nov 22, 2015 10:29AM PST

Thanks for your reply but I found this as worked .

1. Run Command Prompt as an Administrator.

2. Copy/type the following and enter

reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001

3. Reboot the system

Thanks Anyway.

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