Windows 10 Dell Inspiron 24-5459 not recognizing D:\ Drive as Internal

[Steviebabs2685]

As of a few days ago my internal D:\
(DVD/CD-ROM) drive was not recognizing any discs I put into it. I have 2 external LG Blu-ray portable drives and one of them is now recognized as D:\. How do I fix this so that the Internal DVD/CD-ROM drive is recognized as D:\ again? I have gone into the Device Manager and looked under DVD/CD-ROM Drives and the only ones present are my externals. I have also tried rebooting several times to no avail.

Please help!

Steve

 

[davehc]

The easiest way would be to open the "Administrative Tools" Near the bottom of the start menu)- "Computer Management", and then "Disk management"
If you right click each partition/Device in turn, you will see an option to change the letter designation. Work it through, using your own logic, to redesignate the different devices.

 

[Comp Cmndo]

That only would work if the Device Manager sees it.
He has 3 optical drives & it only sees the 2 external USB ones.

Look in the BIOS to see if the internal drive is shown.

 

[Steviebabs2685]

That only would work if the Device Manager sees it.
He has 3 optical drives & it only sees the 2 external USB ones.

Look in the BIOS to see if the internal drive is shown.

How would I go about doing that?

Steve

 

[Wolfie]

Hi Steve,

take a look at the manual, it will tell you how to access BIOS?:

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us...t/product/inspiron-24-5459-aio/manuals?lwp=rt (I haven't read through it so take a look!).

 

[davehc]

I am a Dell User. Just keep pressing the F2 key on boot up, and it will open the setup.
But, my original post, I think you may possibly see your DVD - without a letter designation, in the disk management. Only one reason, otherwise, why the bios would have lost it, and that would be faulty hardware.