lost cd writer upon win 10 install

truckmann said:

Automatic search found nothing new. Installing the Standard driver now.

Assumed windows 10 might have the driver even.

truckmann said:

Automatic search found nothing new. Installing the Standard driver now.

If the Standard AHCI driver works go here and grab the 9.1.9.1005 driver here. DevID.info – free driver search and update utility filename is 62119_infinst_autol.exe might have to extract them and install it manually. Its possible the Intel Rapid Storage Tech program will not work but the SATA driver will.

flood404 said:

If the Standard AHCI driver works go here and grab the 9.1.9.1005 driver here. DevID.info – free driver search and update utility filename is 62119_infinst_autol.exe might have to extract them and install it manually. Its possible the Intel Rapid Storage Tech program will not work but the SATA driver will.

Be careful with sites like that. Mean Acer has not updated these on there site ? Go to Intel first or try them. Good luck guys, late here.

jds63 said:

Be careful with sites like that. Mean Acer has not updated these on there site ? Go to Intel first or try them. Good luck guys, late here.

Yeah Acer never bothered updating their site with the latest drivers. All the manufactures are like that. Intel website is a pain to find that driver since they are on version 10 but they dropped support for his SATA chipset awhile ago.

I finally got it back up after saying something failed and it timed out on the install of the Standard driver. After it timed out it showed a different driver listed so I rebooted anyway. It got hung up on rebooting so I had to power down and wait for it to come back up. Now my CD/DVD drive is working and there is an unrecognized device. I have downloaded the driver you linked, but it's getting late so I will have to work on this more tomorrow.

truckmann said:

I finally got it back up after saying something failed and it timed out on the install of the Standard driver. After it timed out it showed a different driver listed so I rebooted anyway. It got hung up on rebooting so I had to power down and wait for it to come back up. Now my CD/DVD drive is working and there is an unrecognized device. I have downloaded the driver you linked, but it's getting late so I will have to work on this more tomorrow.

Ok just uninstall that device and it will be gone. Then disable the D2D recovery option of the bios. And it should not be there again. Its feature to reset the ACER back to factory defaults by using a hidden partition on your hard drive. D2D recovery is useless now since windows 10 is installed.

Sounds good. That's about what I thought it was for anyway. Do I still need to install the 9.1.9.1005 driver?

flood404 said:

Opps your not the poster who had issues. But do you want the correct driver for your Standard AHCI device? All I need is the hardware ID in the device properties.

I should give it a try. The Mobo is an ASUS M2A- UM. It has an Award bios.

I cannot get the device properties because it (the CD drive) does not show up in the device manager.

BTW. the door opens and closes and I can insert a CD, but nothing happens. However, it read lite does come on momentarily. really strange.

jds63 said:

Seen resolution 3 here to work for some, as long as sure no connections inside came loose power or SATA cables.
Does draw open, any sound from it ? Chances it might be bad (cd-rom) if none of these work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/314060

It does open and close. When I insert a CD, the read lite comes on momentarily. Nothing else happens. I tried the fix it software for MS, but it did not fix it. Also, win 10 has a different registry, and I cannot find any reference to upper and lower registers. I have purchase a new drive and will install it. I will report if this fixes it. It may be a bad/old drive problem.

sailor44 said:

I should give it a try. The Mobo is an ASUS M2A- UM. It has an Award bios.

I cannot get the device properties because it (the CD drive) does not show up in the device manager.

BTW. the door opens and closes and I can insert a CD, but nothing happens. However, it read lite does come on momentarily. really strange.

See the pic for where the drivers they are looking to see are located. It's not under the CD/DVD drive so it doesn't matter that it's not showing up. Your issues are the same as what mine was doing. I could open the drive and it sounded like it would try to read a disk but the drive doesn't show up in the OS.