

You can also try to restart your computer.

The drives will be rediscovered and when the drivers are loaded back, the drives will re-appear in My Computer window. Once all have been removed, right-click again and select Scan for hardware changes. Right-click on each entry present under both “DVD/CD-ROM drives” and “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers” sections one bye one and select Uninstall.ģ. Now locate the DVD/CD-ROM drives and IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers items.Ģ. Open Device Manager using devmgmt.msc command and enable “ View -> Show hidden devices” option. If the above mentioned methods don’t work for you, try following solution given by our reader “Vishal”:ġ. If you don’t want to modify Registry yourself, download following ZIP file, extract it and you’ll get a ready-made Registry script which will modify Windows Registry automatically:ĭownload Registry Script to Fix CD/DVD Drive Missing in Windows METHOD 5: (Code 39) Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. Make sure you open Command Prompt as Administrator as mentioned here. Reg.exe add “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0” /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001
