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Post Date: 2011-08-22
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    Posted: 22 Aug 2011 at 10:07am
So my newest problem is a missing optical Drive. It is not seen in either the Bios or in Device manager. I have triple checked the cables and everything is correct. Drive has power and you can hear it spin and read the disc but it acts as if it isn't part of this computer.

I have tried many of the fixes you can find through common Google queries but to no effect. I want to do a system restore and see if that resolves it but of course I cannot without the drive.

Question is: If I bring my SSD and the image disc to work (Computer shop) and throw it into another system temporarily so i can reload OS then bring it back home does it adversely affect anything that the hardware will be drastically different between the pc i reloaded with and mine at home?

As I understand it my overclock and things are in my Bios/Mobo so reloading OS elsewhere shouldn't matter...or would the opposing hardware just give me a bunch of incorrect driver setups?

Clueless please help:)

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If the hard drive is not recongnized in bios that means the mobo is not detecting it.

mobo not detecting it can have a few resons:

1. the drive is bad

2. the data cable is bad (we power cable is not bad cause you say you can see it get power (led lights up somewhere) and you can hear it spin).

3. the port that the data cable is connected to on the mobo is bad.

odds are its either 1 or 2.

so get a new cable and connect to the same port on mobo, if it still does not work, then connect to the different sata port on the mobo, if it still does not work, then your drive is bad.

its very easy to swap it, just call DS they will ask you to do the same things I did, if at the end it still does not show up in bios, they will send you a new dvd drive and you just swap them.

Till win7 you could not move os install from one pc to another, tho I have not tried it with win7 yet ( have not had time) I have heard that you can do this but thats just what I heard and can't really say the source was creditable.

Edited by DST4ME - 22 Aug 2011 at 4:37pm

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I would suggest, get another external disk drive and connect it to motherboard and install the OS. If that same problem arises then the problem is with the BIOS. Then you need to go for BIOS providers if they have any product to install or update.
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How would bios not recognize a drive, that has to be the most unlikely cause.

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