The optical drives are the CD drive or the DVD drive, and lately the BD drive because they use the light technology to read on discs. The optical drives usually shows as CD Drive (D:) or DVD Drive (D:) or what have you in the My Computer window. The Windows operating system usually name any optical drive with the letter D. There are times that the optical drive of the computer is not showing in the My Computer window. However, the optical drive is working because it can eject its tray and pull it back when you press the eject button on the optical drive. It's LED light is also responding if you insert a disc, however, the computer will not read any disc that you insert into the optical drive. And of course, you cannot view the contents of the disc that you inserted because the optical drive is not showing in the My Computer window in the first place.
And one time, I ended with this kind of problem where the DVD+/-RW connected to the computer is not showing in the My Computer window and it will not read any disc that is inserted. When I go to the Device Manager, I see the DVD drive, which is the TEAC DVD+-RW DV-W28SV, has an exclamation (!) mark on its small icon. I opened the casing of the computer, pulled out the DVD drive, and reconnected its data and power cable making sure that they are firmly connected. Then test the DVD drive if it can now read any disc but to no avail.
To make the long story short, you will need to delete the upper and lower filters in the registry of the Windows operating system to fix this. Here are the steps to delete the upper and lower filters on Windows XP operating system. Be careful in following these steps because making mistakes in editing the registry of the computer can make the operating system to crash.
1. Click the START button and click RUN option.
2. Type regedit into the Run box and click the OK button.
3. Double-click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder to expand it.
4. Double-click on SYSTEM folder to expand it.
5. Double-click on CURRENTCONTROLSET folder to expand it.
6. Double-click on CONTROL folder to expand it.
7. Double-click on CLASS folder to expand it.
8. Adjust the size of the left pane to expand it to the right to be able to see the name of the folders. Click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} folder to show the options for it on the right pane.
9. Right-click on LowerFilters and choose DELETE.
10. Click YES button to confirm deletion of the LowerFilters item.
11. Right-click on UpperFilters and choose DELETE.
12. Click YES button to confirm deletion of the UpperFilters item.
Finally, restart the computer and the optical drive icon will no show in the My Computer window.
And one time, I ended with this kind of problem where the DVD+/-RW connected to the computer is not showing in the My Computer window and it will not read any disc that is inserted. When I go to the Device Manager, I see the DVD drive, which is the TEAC DVD+-RW DV-W28SV, has an exclamation (!) mark on its small icon. I opened the casing of the computer, pulled out the DVD drive, and reconnected its data and power cable making sure that they are firmly connected. Then test the DVD drive if it can now read any disc but to no avail.
To make the long story short, you will need to delete the upper and lower filters in the registry of the Windows operating system to fix this. Here are the steps to delete the upper and lower filters on Windows XP operating system. Be careful in following these steps because making mistakes in editing the registry of the computer can make the operating system to crash.
1. Click the START button and click RUN option.
2. Type regedit into the Run box and click the OK button.
3. Double-click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder to expand it.
4. Double-click on SYSTEM folder to expand it.
5. Double-click on CURRENTCONTROLSET folder to expand it.
6. Double-click on CONTROL folder to expand it.
7. Double-click on CLASS folder to expand it.
8. Adjust the size of the left pane to expand it to the right to be able to see the name of the folders. Click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} folder to show the options for it on the right pane.
9. Right-click on LowerFilters and choose DELETE.
10. Click YES button to confirm deletion of the LowerFilters item.
11. Right-click on UpperFilters and choose DELETE.
12. Click YES button to confirm deletion of the UpperFilters item.
Finally, restart the computer and the optical drive icon will no show in the My Computer window.
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