What to do if the optical drive is not detected on the boot

Computer startup in the "My Computer" to find the optical drive icon, naturally is not used, this fault is generally the optical drive driver is missing or damaged, optical drive interface bad, optical drive data line damage, optical drive jumper error, and so on.

This failure needs to be eliminated individually, as follows:

1, first check the optical drive is not contact with the bad, reconnect installation.

2, start the computer into the BIOS to see if the optical drive parameters can be detected.

3, if there is a description of the optical drive connection is normal, the BIOS does not, you have to remove the optical drive, reinstall again.

4, in the BIOS can detect the parameters of the CD-ROM drive in Safe mode to start the computer, and then restart to normal mode, see whether the failure disappeared, this is generally due to the crash or illegal shutdown is easy to cause damage or loss of the driver, with Safe mode to start can repair damaged programs.

5, if the failure to start in safe mode is still, may be the registry in the CD-ROM program damage more serious, and then use the recovery registry to repair the optical drive driver.

6, if the failure or so reinstall the operating system can generally resolve this issue.