y510 dvd dive has vanished

[lebretonct]

Y510 dvd drive ha vanished. It was there yesterday. I have I tunes on my machine. Is this the problem? Is there a simple fix?

[djonepl]

First of all tell us what system are you on ?


I would suggest go to device manager and refresh ur drives see if anything happends?

[JYeiser]

This same thing happened to me.  When I first got my y510 it worked fine and I installed office and a few programs.  Considering that I don't use my laptop that often, especially for media I didn't notice it wasn't there until I went to play a CD one day.  I restarted the pc and no change.  I did check the BIOS screen and it did detect the optical drive.  I suspect the problem lies in Vista or possibly a driver issue.  I restored the system with the NOVO button and it has been in the device list since.  I love the D partition, because all files in there are not erased during the system restore.  It was a bit of a pain, but alot quicker than a fresh install Vista.  Hope this works.

P.S.  I build computers and I suspect this is a Vista issue not a Lenovo one, good luck!

[DarthAndroid]

I think the opposite.

I received my Y710 a few days ago and proceeded to remove the D partition, add a 20gb partition at the end for linux, resize my C to fill the empty space, and install the latest release (8.04) of ubuntu on the new partition. However, after I went back to Vista I discovered my DVD drive was not showing up; There was no drive in either My Computer or the Device Manager, indicating that windows wasn't seeing the hardware at all. Linux confirmed the same: The hardware wasn't showing up, much less being detected as an optical drive.

The above would normally indicate that there was a hardware failure of some sort (hardware not showing up in multiple operating systems), but I could still boot off of live cd's just fine and while running a live cd, the drive would show up as per normal, and the drive had worked fine in Vista before I started playing with the partitions.

I did a one key recovery and the drive has been working since, but I think there may be some bios problems if the partitions aren't just perfect, as weird as that sounds. Any info from the official guys would be appreciated.

[skripatch]

Maybe this update ca nhelp? read it through before applying.

[turian]

My DVD drive has vanished too.

I cannot do one-click restore.

Nor can I use the DVD patch suggested, because I am not sure that I have this model DVD drive in my y510.

Help! How can I have my DVD drive be detected?