Yes, the optical drive is indicated in the BIOS. With further playing around, I've swapped the position of SATA plugin on my C drive from position 1 to 2 and placed the optical drive to 1 so that we know that that particular position on the SATA controller is operative. There was no change in the results, i.e. C drive boots up and optical drive still does not show up in Windows Explorer.
Going to the Device Manager where my Plextor drive appears, I only now notice the small, yellow explanation point. Checking it's properties it says, "Windows can not start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. Code 19"
With that news I tried two thing; in the BIOS, Integrated Peripherals, I changed the Onboard SATA/IDE Controller Mode from AHCI to IDE; then, I ran CCleaner, a small registry cleanup program. I'd like to report that things are running just fine now, but it's not.
Questions: What would be the best setting on the Onboard SATA/IDE Controller (remember I'm running Win 7, non-raid). And, how do I go about correcting this registry issue?
Thanks in advance.