My DVD drive is not showing up in Explorer. Yet I can see it in Disc Mangement. I put a known good DVD in the drive such as my EPSON PRINTER installation disc. It's listed as

On the left

CD-ROM 0
DVD
316MB
Online

On the right

Epson (E)
316MB CDFS
Healthy (Primary Partition)


When I remove a disc the Online changes to no media.

I've also checked the Device Manager, it is enabled, the driver files are installed.

The drive type is TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-224DB ATA Device

Any help would be appreciated Try getting to drive by going to COMMAND shell and E: drive. It looks to mount the disc's as E: from what you shared. From E: prompt type DIR and hit enter and it should scroll with folder and file names that are on the disc. Once you have done this go back to Explorer and see if its still not discovered yet its able to be used through command shell.

Only time I have ever had this issue was when putting in a disc into computer DVD Movie that had a protection on it that would kill my DVD Drive until the system was rebooted as if a TSR was autorun and disabled the drive from playing the DVD Movie. The company that made the DVD wanted it only to be played in a DVD Player vs PC from what it does to my computer. Wonders if at clean boot you have this issue immediately or only after you placed a specific DVD into the system that the drive is then hidden in Explorer?

Thank you Dave, I think the issue may have occured SINCE I had a recent Windows 10 update. The update took several hours to complete. I've also NOTICED since the update Windows seems to be a lot slower on start-up as my taskbar icons take longer to show than they did before the update.

Anyway, since I made this post, I've found the drive appears in My PC, but does not show up in the left pane along with my other drives as it did before the above update, even when I have a disc loaded into the drive.