DVD Driver for Windows 10: Download/install/Update

“DVD Driver for Windows 10” is essential software to communicate your DVD drives (Hardware) with Operating System version installed in your computer. For example, if Windows 10 based PC/laptop have DVD drives and want to work with your DVD drives, then you should make sure DVD Drivers is properly installed in your computer.

DVD Drives can easily be accessed by opening “File Explorer” or “Windows Explorer” as like all partition of hard disk drives. DVD drives can be used to install clean Windows 10 and/or other software in your computer and even to access various media files stored there.

As we know that to use DVD, we have to insert DVD to the computer and can be easily accessed by opening “File Explorer” and double-click on DVD drives. But sometimes, DVD drives fail to appear properly “File Explorer” due to some problems, leading to inaccessible files. Although, the reasons may vary, still the missing or corrupted DVD drivers can be a root cause for such issues.

In this case, you need to check if DVD drive is showing in “Device Manager” or not. To do so, open “Device Manager”, expand “DVD/CD-ROM Drives” category and check if there is “Yellow Exclamation Mark” or “Yellow Questioned Mark” on your DVD Drive, or is not showing in “Device Manager”. If it shows “Yellow Exclamation Mark” on it, then double-click on it to open its “Properties” window. This will show some errors in “Device Status” area.

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Why CD/DVD Drive is not detected in Windows 10?

When you insert a DVD/CD into the drive and open File Explorer/Windows Explorer in Windows 10, and notice that the drive doesn’t display in explored window, means the operating system failed to recognize the drive. The possible reasons behind the issue can be incorrect or bad configured settings relating to CD/DVD in BIOS, or in Windows settings. In addition to these, there might be some issues with CD/DVD drive hardware and its connections, corrupted registry settings relating to DVD/CD drive, and even more.

In such instances, you can try fixing the issues by performing various essential checks and workarounds like verifying the drive is shown in BIOS, check drive’s name in Device Manager, running Hardware and Devices troubleshooter, clearing the upper and lower registry filters, perform hard reset of computer, check internet cable connections, and test for hardware failures.

Why Optical Disk Drive is not recognized in Microsoft Windows?

There could be several reasons behind Optical Disk Drive like CD, DVD or Blu-Ray drive not recognized in Microsoft Windows PC, and that includes bad or damaged configuration of optical disk drive, Windows is unable to load the drivers that required it, corrupted/outdated DVD/CD driver, issue with CD/DVD drive hardware and its connections, and even more. The error messages generated in all these instances may vary and may show even some possible reasons. let’s check out some of the error codes below.

Some common errors occurred when DVD Drive not showing in ‘Device Manager’:

A driver is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)

A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality. (Code 32)

Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)

The above errors usually occur after upgrading Windows OS to latest version, improper installation of CD or DVD recording program and even while while improper installation of Microsoft Digital Image. Due to these possible causes, DVD Drive may fail to appear normally as it is not detected by Windows 10 Operating System.

In some cases, upgrading to Windows Operating System to new version causes compatibility issues with System drivers, that may lead to issues like DVD driver is incompatible with current Windows 10 version. Many users have already reported that they have encountered “DVD Drive not showing in Device Manager, File Explorer”, “DVD Drive is not detected by Windows OS” or similar issues due to problem with DVD driver, outdated firmware or a factory defect. if you are one among the users who are facing off these issues as well, we recommend to fix the issues with here mentioned workarounds or guidelines.

How to fix DVD Drive not showing in Windows 10?

Method 1: Run “Hardware and Devices” troubleshooter

Step 1: Press “Windows + R” keys together from keyboard to open “Run Dialog Box”

Step 2: In the opened “Run Dialog Box”, type “Control Panel” and hit “Enter” key to open “Control Panel”

Step 3: In the opened “Control Panel”, type “Troubleshooter” in “search box” and click on “Troubleshooting”

Step 4: Under “Hardware and Sound” item, click on “Configure a device”

Step 5: Follow on-screen instructions to finish the troubleshooting process. Once done, please check if the trouble is resolved.

Method 2: Remove the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers

Step 1: Press “Windows + X” keys together from keyboard and select “Device Manager”

Step 2: In the opened “Device Manager”, click on “View” and choose “Show Hidden Devices”

Step 3: Now, locate and expand “IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers” category

Step 4: Right-click on “ATA Channel” and select “Uninstall”

Step 5: (Optional), remove Intel Serial ATA storage Controller.

Step 6: Once done, restart your computer to see the changes.

Method 3: How to reinstall DVD Driver for Windows 10?

Sometimes, outdated DVD driver can cause “DVD not showing in Windows 10” issue. So, you can fix this issue by updating or reinstalling DVD driver.

Step 1: Open “Device Manager” and expand “DVD/CD-ROM Drives” category

Step 2: Right-click on DVD device and select “Uninstall”.

Step 3: Follow on-screen instructions to finish uninstall.

Step 4: After that, restart your computer. This will automatically install DVD driver in Windows 10.

Method 4: How to update DVD Driver for Windows 10?

Step 1: At first, you need to visit your DVD Drive manufacturer’s official website and download the latest drivers for your Windows 10, and save the setup file in your computer hard drive.

Step 2: Open “Device Manager” and expand “DVD/CD-ROM” category

Step 3: Right-click on DVD drive and select “Update Driver”

Step 4: In next window, select “Browse my computer for latest driver software” and follow on-screen instructions to install the latest driver in your device.

Step 5: Once done, reboot your computer to save the changes.

Method 5: Create new Registry keys

Step 1: Open “Run Dialog Box” and enter “regedit”, and hit “Ok” button to open “Registry Editor”

Step 2: In the opened “Registry Editor” window, navigate to following mentioned path.

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesatapi”

Step 3: Right-click on “ATAPI” and select “New > Key”

Step 4: Enter “Controller0” as name of the new key

Step 5: Click on “Controller0”, and in right pane, right-click on empty space and select “New > DWORD (32-bit) value”, enter “EnumDevice1” as name of new DWORD

Step 6: Now, open “EnumDevice1” DWORD’s Properties, and enter ‘1’ in “Value Data” input and hit “OK” button to see the changes. This way, you can fix DVD drive not working in Windows 10.

Create new registry keys using “Command Prompt” to fix

You can try to create new registry key using ‘Command Prompt’ if you don’t want to use “Registry Editor” App.

Step 1: Press “Windows + X” keys together from keyboard and select “Command Prompt As Admin”

Step 2: Now, type the following command in command prompt and hit “Enter” key to execute

“reg.exe add “HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicesatapiController0” /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001”

Step 3: Wait to complete the process. Once done, please restart your computer to see the changes and check if the problem is resolved.

Re-install or Update DVD Driver Using a Tool

You can also try to update all Windows drivers including DVD Driver using a here suggested Automatic Driver Update Tool. You can get this tool through button/link below.

⇓ Get Automatic Driver Update Tool

Conclusion

I am sure this post helped you to know about “DVD Driver for Windows 10” and how to download/install, and update it in Windows 10 to fix DVD not working issue. we hope above mentioned instructions might have helped you resolving the issue with your DVD Rom driver related problems..