How To Enable DVD Drive in Windows 8, Detect it Easily

Sometimes you might find new trouble in Windows 8. After successfully installing Windows 8 version, the computer does not show internal DVD drive. Then you might get yourselves in trouble and think, why DVD drive has vanished after installation. But don’t worry, a process with some steps is provided. Follow these tips and solve this trouble quickly.

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Enable DVD Drive in Windows 8

  • At first, Press Ctrl + C shortcut to open Charms bar.
  • In Charms bar, Click on Search option.
  • Now type Command Prompt in the search box.
windows 8 command prompt search
  • A link is showing in search results on the left panel.
  • At this time, when we press right-click, a setting panel will come up at the bottom.
  •  Here, click on Run as administrator button to start the command prompt with admin right.
window 8 command Prompt start
  •  Type this command –

Reg.exe add “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0” /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001

  • Press Enter button after typing this command in command Prompt.
  • Now you have to restart the computer.

When we open Window explorer, DVD drive will display with drive partition.

windows 8 DVD drive enable

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    1. sunita

      says:
      August 30, 2015 at 12:27 am

      Thanks Wan.

    2. Wan Ardiles

      says:
      August 29, 2015 at 5:25 pm

      reg.exe add “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0” /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001

      In your article, the syntax is “…CurrentControlSet-Services…”

      Actually the correct one is “…CurrentControlSet\Services…”.

      Tested & working. Please edit your article. Look carefully. TQ.

    3. GameOver

      says:
      August 29, 2015 at 5:16 pm

      The correct syntax.

      reg.exe add “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0” /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001

    4. sunita

      says:
      July 4, 2014 at 8:26 am

      Follow: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us

    5. Phiip

      says:
      July 4, 2014 at 6:59 am

      Hi, I had the same problem in my notebook. I owns Samsung Notebook NP350E5C-SO1IN which is one year old. DVD drive did not show up on my PC. As I Googled for a fix on the web, I came to know that the problem must be caused by Windows 8.1. I tried all the solutions advised by Microsoft like changes in the registry, checking disk manager (Under DVD icon TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-208BB which was greyed out, properties displayed error 45) for three days but to no avail. That was annoying. Today, I used the support center and did a diagnosis. It showed only a single problem like – error: boot speed slow. I clicked on the error to fix it and it displayed Superfetch auto fixing. Enable superfetch to make boot and application speed faster. I shut down my computer as I had to go out for minutes. Later, when I power on, after a few minutes a popup launched at the bottom near the hidden icon (sata unknown disk removed) and heard the similar purr sound from the DVD drive. I examined ‘My computer’ and the ‘DVD RW’ icon had showed up. I inserted a cd and it works fine.
      I would appeal all IT geeks to elaborate what had gone wrong with my computer and how the it was fixed.

    6. sunita

      says:
      May 21, 2014 at 6:49 pm

      Sorry, if you have faced trouble. Please Follow the article – http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-hardware/my-dvdcd-drive-does-not-work-in-windows-8/588293f6-71a6-48b6-a9b9-b764553ee1a0?page=4

    7. sunita

      says:
      May 21, 2014 at 5:47 pm

      You are writing the command wrong. Type carefully.

    8. Andrea

      says:
      May 21, 2014 at 6:32 pm

      How is it wrong?

      I re typed it and got this error

      ———————–
      C:\Users>Reg.exe add “HKLM\system\currentcontrolset-services\atapi\co
      ntroller0” /f/v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001
      ERROR: Invalid key name.
      Type “REG ADD /?” for usage.

      C:\Users>

      ————————————-

      Thanks for helping!

    9. Andrea

      says:
      May 21, 2014 at 4:46 pm

      it gives me the following message>

      C:\Users\vfshoadmin>Reg.exe add
      ERROR: Invalid syntax.
      Type “REG ADD /?” for usage.

      C:\Users\vfshoadmin>”HKLM\system\currentcontrolset-services\atapi\controller0″ /
      f/v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001
      The system cannot find the path specified.

      What am I doing wrong?

    10. Rohit

      says:
      February 8, 2013 at 4:03 am

      it has been removed

    11. mircea

      says:
      November 28, 2012 at 9:49 pm

      how do ! iso as add a tab or something?

    12. amit

      says:
      November 5, 2012 at 8:45 am

      you can follow another procedure by third party tool which is named CD-DVD Icon Repair to recognize DVD drive in windows 8.
      Download link of CD-DVD Icon Repair tool.

    13. Shishir

      says:
      November 2, 2012 at 10:41 pm

      "ERROR Invalid key name" How to fix that?

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