Captain Ron
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I have an old PC which I have had since it arrived with Windows Vista (shudders) and over the years I have upgraded it all the way to Windows 10 professional. It's a bit slow as you can imagine but it still does the basic tasks I ask of it well. Recently however, the SATA connected UHD friendly optical drive periodically decides to vanish from system availability. Tray ejects fine on button press so I know power is going to the drive ok but it's not available in Windows. I checked all the cable connections and all appears well. I am thinking the drive was installed under Vista and the machine has been through several OS upgrades so maybe something has got corrupted or flaky in the installation of the drive. To reinstall, do I just use add/remove hardware and then reboot windows to re-add the drive or is there anything else recommended that I should check first?