18 noiembrie, 2013

Missing CD/DVD drive in Windows 8

As you can deduct from the post's title, the missing cd/dvd drive saga didn't end once Windows 8 was released. This didn't happen to me yet, but it seems there are a lot of users who couldn't use their cd drives because Windows operating system decided they didn't need it anymore and hid it. Happily, there is a solution and it's not complicated.

So, here is what you need to do:
- go to the Windows 8 Metro UI, type cmd  and press ctrl+shift+enter. This will start Command prompt in administrator mode
- type this: reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001 and press enter
- reboot

Check if this solved the problem and give thanks to the Microsoft support engineer.

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