Vista says I have no Optical Drive

I have just installed windows Vista Ultamite on my laptop (Clevo M570u) and everything's been great except, for a reason I do not know, Vista is not egistering that I have a DVD-RW. I go into "computer" from the Start menu, and it only shows my C: drive. That's it. I read that another person was having the exact same problem here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=160496

I've tried most everything he's done and possess the precise same problem, but with a different brand of laptop. The solution was to manipulate the channeling of the IDEs through the bios, something I tried to do, but it told me that everything in that section was predetermined and to change it I'd have to contact a systems administrator. Please, help!

 

I had this same problem. It is not a problem caused by Vista or your laptop manufacturer, but it is a third-party issue. Here is how to resolve it. I had the same issue.

Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

And delete "Upperfilters" and "Lowerfilters" and then restart. (Do not delete if it ends in ".bak")

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=158024

 

my dvd drive just died (1 month old). check and make sure its recognized in the bios. if its not, its dead. if it is seen in the bios, then its windows problem.