Windows 10 Optical Drive doesn't exist in windows

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About a month ago, I got a new HDD and had to unplug my CD/DVD optical drive in order to set up the HDD. When I plugged the optical drive back in and started up the computer, the optical drive no longer appeared in file explorer. The HDD works completely fine, but the optical drive just doesn't show up anywhere. I've tried several tutorials on fixing the issue, but when I came across one, it was talking about messing with the IDE ATA/ATAPI settings in Device Manager. When I went there, IDE ATA/ATAPI wasn't listed, and I can't find any trace of it anywhere on the computer. I don't know if the t

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