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The Optical Drive Is Missing After Performing a Clean Installation Upgrade to the Windows 7 Operating System

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To resolve this issue, download and install the appropriate registry patch and then restart the computer.

32 bit version Intel® SATA Driver Registry Patch update
64 bit version Intel® SATA Driver Registry Patch update

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