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Well now that I think about it I only use the drive for bootable disks anyway. Now that I use the cloud so much I rarely transfer anything to disk.
Did I mention I can still boot from the drive?
I must apologize if I seem like I jump around and forget things. I am on medications that have greatly affected my memory, cognition, judgement, and critical thinking skills. I do not mean to deliberately mislead or omit important facts.
Thank You for your understanding!
Found my drive is no longer manufactured, so of course no Windows 10 driver available.
I haven't seen an optical drive (CD, DVD) for years that required drivers other than those supplied by Microsoft.
If you can boot from the drive, I expect that your problem is only in Windows. Replacing the drive may fix things, but it may not.
Is your system based on the M3N-HT Deluxe that you list? If so, that uses the old (2008) nVidia 780a motherboard chipset. The newest drivers that I see for it at Visual Computing Leadership from NVIDIA are for Windows 7. There are newer ones available through the Microsoft Update Catalog, but those may be a bit of a pain to install manually for non-experts (like me).
I own an old (2008) laptop with an nVidia chipset. When I upgraded it from Vista to Windows 7, I had some trouble getting Windows to recognize the chipset, until I got an installer to run. Subsequently, all updates were automatically installed.
I think that your system is likely to be completely supported by Windows 10, but it may take some fiddlin' to get it all running properly. I think that it'll be worth the effort.
bobkn, thank you very much for the info! Yes I am running M3N-HT Deluxe and I basically understand what you are saying but I don't know where to begin. I don't have the slightest idea about how to upgrade a MB chipset. All I can find are video drivers and BIOS updates, which are both up to date now.
I guess this what Google is for - it's time to learn something new.
Thanks again!