For some reason, I upgraded my windows vista to 7 on my acer aspire 5520. The CD/DVD device was missing from my computer. Articles told me to go in device manager and uninstall the device and restart so windows can reinstall it for me.
Where in device manager is this driver? Under what category will I find it?
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There should be a category for CD/DVD drives in Device Manager, unless Windows thinks you don't have any CD/DVD drives installed in the computer (which is probably the case if you're having trouble locating its device category in Device Manager).
Check to be sure that a cable isn't loose, the drive is not broken or disabled in the system BIOS settings.
There should be a category name titled "DVD/CD-ROM drives" and if you double-click on it, or if you click on the plus sign next to it, you should see your device name.
Windows XP:
Windows Vista:
If the drive doesn't appear in the location shown in the photos, you can try adding a piece of hardware manually. See for details.
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