Win11 doesn't recognize blu ray drive?

[sutululu]

I got a new pc but the house has no place for my old BH16NS40(2013) drive and since I'm not using it regularly getting an external case would not be the most cost efficient option because they are way too pricey for 5" drives.

I got a sata to usb adapter with a 12v power supply and the drive opens, closes, also does something when I put in a disk, but there is no optical drive in This PC.

I tried to install the driver from the manufacturer's site but it gives me the error message "ATAPI device cannot be found!!!"

In Settings/Bluetooth & devices under other devices it lists as "VLI product string"

In the Device Manager I got no optical drives category, just "VirtualDisk SCSI Disk Device" in the Drives category

In Disk Manager it lists my PC's ssd as Disk 0 and then another one as "Disk 1" and it asks me to initialise but clicking that says the "device is not ready"

I also tried this in the Registry editor but no change: https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardw ... es%5Catapi

In the old PC the drive worked properly, but I already gave that away

[Billycar11]

Not all sata to USB converters support optical drives.
Get one from my guide linked below

[Coopervid]

Attach to SATA or get a compatible USB-> SATA adapter.