Fix DVD or Blu-ray player is missing after restarting Windows 10

Fix DVD or Blu-ray player is missing after restarting Windows 10 -

Sometimes in Windows 10, you can face the question: after a reboot, your DVD player or Blu-ray folder disappears from this PC. His drive letter disappears completely, and despite what you've tried, it does not work. Device Manager displays an exclamation point to your optical drive and said the drivers can not be installed. Here's how to solve this problem and get your DVD player works again.

The issue is well known and common to Windows 10 and even Windows 8, which is affected by the same problem. It can be fixed with a registry tweak.

Warning! You will need to edit the registry entries. If you are not familiar with the registry editor, read our first register Essentials.

Fix the missing DVD or Blu-ray after restart in Windows 10

1. open registry editor
2. access the following registry key :.

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE  System  CurrentControlSet  Services  atapi 

   Tip: You can access the key desired register with one click.

3. Create a new subkey under the key here 'ATAPI' called Controller0.
4. Create a new DWORD value called 32-bit Controller0 EnumDevice1 and set to 1. Note: Even if you use 64-bit Windows, you still need to create value DWORD 32 bits.
5. Restart Windows 10.

After reboot, your DVD player must be accessible.

If despite these steps, your DVD drive is still inaccessible or for you, the keys and values ​​above does not work, then do the following:

1. Open the new registry editor.
2. Go to the following key

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

3. Delete the "UpperFilters" and register values ​​'LowerFilters' in the right pane of the Registry Editor to that key.
4. Restart Windows 10.

Now your DVD drive should be listed again in this folder PC / Computer in Windows 10.

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