Dvd drive shows up in bios but not in my computer

[armysgt1]

A few day days ago I reinstalled windows 7 because I got a new motherboard. My dvd drive has been working fine up until now. It shows up in my bios and in device manager in Windows, but I can't get it to show up in my computer and use the damn thing. I have no idea what could have caused this. It says the device can not start because of an I/0 error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[StrangleHold]

First try going in device manager, right click on it, click uninstall and reboot and let it reinstall the drivers. If its a IDE drive, you dont have two drives on the same cable with the jumpers set wrong?

 

[armysgt1]

OK, just tried that, for some reason it's showing up as an scsi disk device in device manager. This can't be right because it's always shown up as a cd-rom device. And yeah, this is the only drive on the IDE cable.

 

[Ryan_Fpv]

This happened to me after using Daemon tools. Still haven't figured out how to fix it, damn thing is useless. If you have any luck, let me know!

 

[armysgt1]

It's in disk management where I try and initialize it and it says it operation cannot be performed because of an I/O error.

 

[armysgt1]

Oh yeah, that may be the problem for me as well. I see now that did just install daemon tools lite and I recognized this problem shortly after. No idea how to fix this though.

 

[armysgt1]

I have read countless forums and tried so many things. Looks like I'm going to have to reinstall windows again. Yay!

 

[StrangleHold]

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us

 

[armysgt1]

Already tried it 3 or 4 times. Doesn't find the drive even though it's there in device manager and disk management. Thanks though.

 

[StrangleHold]

In disk management does it show a drive letter?

 

[armysgt1]

No, it shows the disk and says not initialized. I right click on it and try to initialize it and it tells me there is an I/0 error every time.

 

[StrangleHold]

Try to assign it a drive letter.

 

[armysgt1]

There's no option to do that. When i right click on the available space where it says new simple volume,etc, they are all grayed out except for properties.

 

[StrangleHold]

Missed where you said it was showing up as a scsi disk device. Try finding the IDE controller it is on in device manager, right click it and click uninstall and reboot.

 

[armysgt1]

For some reason it doesn't show is as a scsi device anymore, just "disk drive." I just looked through the entire device manager twice, IDE controller is nowhere to be found.

 

[johnb35]

Post a screen shot of your device manager please.

 

[armysgt1]

Hmm, how do i do that? Edit:figured it out hang on.

 

[armysgt1]

How do I make this bigger without going over the filesize?

 

[StrangleHold]

Should be listed as something like IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.

Edit
On the view tab in device manager check show hidden devices.

 

[johnb35]

If only it was bigger I could actually see what it says.

Click on the device manager window, press alt and print screen button together, then go to mspaint and press ctrl-v at the same time. Save the pic as jpg.