Windows Disk Drive Not Working

Can t see the hard drive in windows 10.

Windows disk drive not working.

An alternate driver may be providing this. The device is not working properly because windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. See if the dvd drive works. Assuming that the hard drive is installed properly and is not by some horrible dumb luck defective out of the gate bringing it online is a very simple process.

The resolutions that are listed in this. Code 31 a driver service for this device has been disabled. Code 19 the device is not working properly because windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. If after cleaning the drive and cds you still get errors it s likely the disc drive is bad.

If the physical button is preventing you from opening the disk drive you can have your pc do it for you. Open the control panel. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality. Press windows r on your keyboard to launch the run dialog box.

Click or double click the system icon. Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information in the registry is incomplete or damaged. In windows xp and earlier click the hardware tab and then the device manager. If the new drive cannot be found when using the disk management feature the physical installation might have failed.

Code 31 a driver service for this device has been disabled. To do so you first need to pull up the windows disk management tool. Go to the software for burning discs does not recogonize the drive section for the steps to make the disc burning software detect the drive. Type diskmgmt msc into the box and press enter.

Force eject a disk within windows 10. Force eject a disk. It s not unusual for your optical drive to be working just fine in a previous version of windows or windows 10 then the minute you upgrade. There are various reasons why a cd or dvd drive is not detected.

Use windows update to fix windows 10 dvd drive issues. If windows 10 doesn t detect the drive correctly and it appears in disk management with the unreadable status you re experiencing read and write errors corruption or hardware failure. If the cd dvd drive is listed as normal with no special icons windows detects the drive but other software used to burn discs might not detect the drive. If it does then there s a program on your computer that s preventing the drive from working normally.

Right click the start button and click file.