No Optical Drive Shows up

[HashBang]

Here's a strange one...

If I boot up my laptop with a CD or DVD in the optical drive,
everything works normally. HOWEVER, If I boot up my laptop with NO CD
or DVD in the optical drive, I cannot use said optical drive until I
reboot with a disk of any sort in the drive.

I removed the drivers for the optical drive and everything worked
normal and fine until the first time I rebooted with a disk of any sort
in the optical drive, now it's back to it's old habits again.

Any thoughts on this strange happening would help.

Thanks,
HB

 

[Guest]

Internal or External?
Try changing the drive letters.
It is strange but I have seen where Windows like to use the next sequential
letter of the alphabet and will give a drive (especially an external drive)
the letter of a drive already in use. DON"T CHANGE THE C Drive letter though!