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The Problem
My Blue Ray drive used to appear in Windows 8.1 Pro's Explorer under "This PC." Now I have to type into the navigation bar "D:" So the drive still works, but it just doesn't show up in Explorer next to the rest of the drives.
What I've already tried
Recent Change
The optical drive used to display before I configured a RAID 1 array. So all of the above fixes were after setting up RAID 1 array and (obviously) after the optical drive disappeared. As for the SATA configuration, my OS is on an SSD, and I previously had an HDD for storage. Then everything was running in ACHI mode. The change involved replacing the HDD with a RAID 1, and now the HDDs are running in RAID mode (not AHCI). I am pretty sure the optical drive appeared in Explorer after configuring the RAID, but I don't have a way to verify.
. . . Any ideas???
My Blue Ray drive used to appear in Windows 8.1 Pro's Explorer under "This PC." Now I have to type into the navigation bar "D:" So the drive still works, but it just doesn't show up in Explorer next to the rest of the drives.
What I've already tried
Checked Device Manager: There's no exclamation point by the optical drive. It's installed and working.
Edit Registry: In CMD as administrator - "reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001"
Edit Registry: Removed Upper and Lower filters in the DVD's Registry Key according to this link: http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-51093-computer-can-not-show-the-cd-dvd-rom-drive-e
OS Refresh: Reinstall Windows 8.1 Pro using "Keep Files and Settings" option
Recent Change
The optical drive used to display before I configured a RAID 1 array. So all of the above fixes were after setting up RAID 1 array and (obviously) after the optical drive disappeared. As for the SATA configuration, my OS is on an SSD, and I previously had an HDD for storage. Then everything was running in ACHI mode. The change involved replacing the HDD with a RAID 1, and now the HDDs are running in RAID mode (not AHCI). I am pretty sure the optical drive appeared in Explorer after configuring the RAID, but I don't have a way to verify.
. . . Any ideas???
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