SOLVED DVD not recognised

[MrEd]

5 weeks ago I upgraded my 6 yo desktop running 32 bit W7 Pro to W10 Pro. Everything worked well.
Today I cloned the boot HDD onto a new Samsung 850 Pro SSD. System boots much faster now, problem is the DVD drive has disappeared (BIOS sees it ok). Any clues?

 

[Trouble]

Right click the Start Button and choose Disk Management from the context menu.
Does Disk Management show the DVD drive?
Does it show that it has a drive letter?

 

[MrEd]

Right click the Start Button and choose Disk Management from the context menu.
Does Disk Management show the DVD drive?
Does it show that it has a drive letter?

No. Five volumes are listed (4 are correctly identified and labelled C,D,E,F) with the top listing being a 450MB Recovery Partition, a partitioned section of my original boot HDD, now called "D" drive, which I haven't reformatted as yet.

 

[Trouble]

So nothing like this??

IF not..... give this a try https://www.windows10forums.com/threads/dvd-drive-not-detected-by-windows-10.2185/#post-9349

 

[MrEd]

Thank you Trouble but I solved the problem by first unplugging all drives (except the new SSD boot drive), then rebooting the system each time I reconnected a drive. Windows at last recognised the DVD drive. I'm not that confident with fiddling with regedit so thought I'd try the above first and "voila". I'm sure it was a Win problem as BIOS had no trouble with the drives.