How to disable notebook optical drive

The optical drive is one of the more easily damaged hardware in the computer hardware, and today many computers have removed the optical drive. Many built-in CD-ROM notebook in the use of a period of time, the CD-ROM is more prone to failure, small series of a Sony notebook recently there has been a CD-ROM failure, computer boot, CD-ROM will often automatically eject, to use brought inconvenience. Anyway, the optical drive now has little effect, if there are often some problems, it is better to disable it, the following small series to teach you how to disable the notebook drive.

Notebook optical drive How to disable Device Manager disabling the optical drive method

Disabling a laptop drive is not difficult, and many friends might think of removing the drive from the drive so that it doesn't run properly. Unloading the driver is a method, in fact, there is absolutely no need to do so, as long as the Device Manager, the optical drive is disabled, no need to uninstall the driver so troublesome, the following are the specific steps.

Right-click on the computer icon on the desktop of the computer, and in the pop-up menu, tap open Properties.

Second, in the open Computer properties interface, click on the left side of the "Device Manager", as shown in the figure below.

After opening the Device Manager, then use the mouse to click on the left arrow of "Dvd/cd-rom Drive", expand the specific "CD-ROM Model", and then on this CD-ROM model right mouse, in the pop-up menu, click "Disable" on it, as shown in the figure below.

Through the simple steps above, you can easily disable the notebook drive, if you want to use the optical drive in the future, you can follow the above steps, in the Device Manager, start the optical drive.