Comments on: Fix Hard Drive Or DVD Not Showing Up In Windows 7

By: kaye

kaye — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:01:27 +0000

I couldn’t find the LowerFilters on the right pane. :( Please help me… ASAP, if possible.

By: jad

jad — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:15:07 +0000

Thank you, easy work around

By: Don

Don — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:47:04 +0000

Did not work for me. :(
I’ll try playing with the hardware

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:14:39 +0000

its Working Thank You..

By: Mohamed Jafy

Mohamed Jafy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:07:25 +0000

Thanks really works

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:17:05 +0000

I removed the registry entry for the upper filter, but this did not fix the problem. My DVD drive disappears after a minute of idle time. The only way to make it return is to open/close the drive door on my laptop. Another issue is that now iTunes is giving me a registry error about a missing drive. I tried to reinstall iTunes but it doesn’t fix it. Any further advice would be appreciated.

By: arifa

arifa — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:22:05 +0000

hey……i had a similar problem for days…….Thank you Thank you so much
May God bless you

By: Rovan

Rovan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:27:05 +0000

Had similar problem with DVD drive disappearing after updating iTunes on Windows 7. Did the suggested registry deletions and the restart, and the drive was back. Did – however – have to do a repair on iTunes in order to stard importing CDs again.
Thanks, very helpful advice

By: lala lala

lala lala — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:35:22 +0000

I had this problem and the registry fix didn’t cut it. But with help I got a solution.

The fix was to simply plug the drive into a different SATA slot on the motherboard. Apparently windows (or maybe it’s the mobo) doesn’t like it when certain devices are mixed on the same channel. What worked for me was to make a non-booting sata drive the ch. 2 master and the DVD drive the ch. 2 slave.

Good luck.

By: jay

jay — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:41:22 +0000

i can’t see the upper and the lower filters anywhere….

By: Typical Idiot Fan

Typical Idiot Fan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:19:16 +0000

This same issue appears to be not just for Windows Vista partition but also for Windows XP partitions and, I’m guessing, older versions as well. Thanks for the fix! I had all my old files on this drive, even though it hasn’t been used as the master boot drive in years!

By: Madhu

Madhu — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:15:42 +0000

Thank u very much…it worked perfectly..

By: julien

julien — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:19:04 +0000

i cant see lower filters anywhere, only upper

By: BlackNinjaVirus

BlackNinjaVirus — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:26:17 +0000

I’m just glad Windows 7 is free.
I don’t wanna pay the $400.00, if I don’t have too.

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Windows 7 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:08:50 +0000

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By: Playa

Playa — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:49:36 +0000

Now that was helpful :) Thanks:)

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By: JF

JF — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:51:25 +0000

I love the look and feel of Windows 7 but one think happen to me, my second sata hard drive is not showing in windows 7 and it just disappear from the list in the bios too.
And after returning on Vista is not there too, i have to unplug and replug it.
So i uninstall windows 7.
I try with the build 7000 64 bits and 32 bits.