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ASUS K53T - BIOS detects DVD Drive, Windows doesn't?
Hi all - I have an ASUS K53T laptop that I am setting up for somebody. The DVD drive in it was bad, so I replaced the DVD drive with another known-good drive.
I can see the DVD drive listed in the BIOS on the laptop, and I can boot from the DVD drive and all works fine (I tested the DVD drive by booting from it to a Linux LiveDVD and all was well).
BUT....Windows 10 does not detect the drive at all? It's a fresh install of Windows 10 that all I have done is install the basic software I like (LibreOffice, browsers, etc) and update it (I think it has 21H1 on it at the moment?)
I DID originally do the install on a mechanical HDD and then clone it to a 256GB SSD, but that's the only major change to Windows I've done and that shouldn't affect my DVD drive at all? Windows is functioning perfectly otherwise and is activated with the MS servers.
The drive doesn't show up under the drive listings in 'This PC', it doesn't show up in the Disk Manager, and it doesn't show up in the Device Manager either....BUT....if I eject the drive and put a disk in, I see the cursor change to the Windows 'working' cursor for a moment as the DVD drive first reads the disk......but the drive just isn't visible or accessible in Windows...?
Any ideas what is going on here and how to get the DVD drive working again?