How do I fix the CD DVD icon not showing up on my computer?

Optical Drives (CD/DVD) Icon Not Showing in My Computer Window

1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. It’ll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:
3. Look for “UpperFilters” and “LowerFilters” strings in right-side pane.
4. Restart the system and now you should have access to your optical drives.

How do I set BIOS to boot from CD or DVD?

Steps are provided below:

1. Boot mode should be selected as UEFI (Not Legacy).
2. Secure Boot set to Off.
3. Go to the ‘Boot’ tab in the BIOS and select Add Boot option. (
4. A new window will appear with ‘blank’ boot option name. (
5. Name it “CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive”
6. Press < F10 > key to save settings and restart.

Why is BIOS not detecting internal DVD / CD optical drive?

Recently I added additional internal HDD (WD 2TB SATA3 64MB Green) as a secondary storage. Once done, the motherboard BIOS only detects both the HHD. It doesn’t detect the DVD-RW anymore. Before this both the HDD and DVD-RW was working fine.

Why does the boot menu not recognise the CD / DVD?

>>>The whole process is repeated over and over, that is until I finally managed to attain a Vista CD, and when I press F2 the BIOS menu appears, however in there the CD/DVD drive does not appear. What do I do about this? The drive works fine, since it was always working even the day before the virus struck.

How to fix missing DVD drive in BIOS?

if it an older ide drive and the only one on the cable (it have a 40 pin data cable) make sure the jumpers are set to master. if it sata and a new mb check that al the sata ports are turned on in the bios. You are sort of asking about the device manager AND the BIOS? Check the data cable to the drive, even try another cable and MB port.

Is the DVD ROM not detected by BIOS-Dell Community?

01-07-2019 12:59 AM I’ve just bought my Inspiron 5770 but DVD-ROM is not detected by BIOS. It seems like it is not physically connected. Maybe someone could help me with the issue, please.