My wife brought home an E4310 that was no longer needed at her office. She knows that I like to tinker with computers and the machine looks to be a decent unit. The hard drive was removed for business reasons so I installed an SSD without any hiccups. I also installed WIN7 using the DVD drive.
Now the problem. The DVD drive shows up and tests fine using the bios but doesn't show up in hard drive manager in WIN7. I've tried several different suggestions that I have read here and nothing works. This tells me that the issue is somewhere in the operating system.
Has anyone else had this problem or heard of a fix?
The high and low filter delete trick in registry didn't work.
The Dell 'detect?' program didn't help.
I tried a few other things that I can't recall right now - I've been at this for a few hours, this one really has me confused. Any helpful suggestions are appreciated.
