New sony DVD RW won't show

[pixc1987]

I recently purchased a new Sony DVD Rewriter and for some reason it will not display in my computer. I have gone into device manager and scanned for new devices but it does not find it, I want to know why this is not working, the first time I plugged it in it detected it and installed it, but since then it never recognises it.

 

[nhasian]

dont worry about the device manager just yet. you need to make sure the drive is seen by the bios first. if not try another cable or drive

 

[pixc1987]

70% certain it shows in BIOS but i'll check

 

[pixc1987]

recognised in BIOS, Optaric DVD RW Sony, next? thanks btw

 

[pixc1987]

ok it seems to be there now, why did this happen any ideas?

 

[popatim]

Hmmm. I know theres a setting to hide a drive if its empty. Did it only show up after you put a disk in?

 

[pixc1987]

no it showed anyway, but it wont run autoplay, you know when insert a blank disc, it used to ask me if I wanted to burn a dvd, but now it doesn't do anything, not even the option to autoplay available

 

[pixc1987]

It shows but seems to crash when i try and right click to do something with my discs, runs really slow and i have to retry

 

[pixc1987]

Ok sorry for posting again, but the dvd drive seemed to work, i managed to get some samples of a cd but then it crashed while copying some across, I've since tried to load the sample disc and it crashed my music making software ableton and i was wondering if there is anything that could cause this other than a dodgy dvd drive, the cables are brand new and so is the dvd drive, it causes some "ground" noises coming from my speakers, it runs slower than i expected and seems to be not reading discs properly, should i return this item to amazon? if so can anyone recommend a good DVD RW drive, that I could buy for no more than £20, I'm in the UK, thought I better mention this but can often find the stuff from us on uk sites, please help as I am finding often i get a few people respond asking for more information then nothing for ages, much appreciated