CD/DVD drive wont work?

Hi, I need a little help. I tried almost about everything to get my CD/DVD drive to work. But some reason it wont. In device manager it doesn't show a CD/DVD ROM spot. It worked until I did a reset to manufacturer settings. I did it twice because I thought it might fix it but it didnt. Help please :)
Answer:

There is an option in Folder options to hide drive and folders that have no contenet. You only need to disable that option. Whatever you did, you may have uninstalled the drivers for the drive but windows would have re-installed default drivers anyhow. Sometimes, if you have added new hardware like a better video card, it might be that the PSU is low in watts and the CD/DVD drive is likely not to read disks. The tray will still open but not read any disks inserted. Make sure the power cable is in the back of the cd/dvd drive and the ribon cable or sata cable is also attached. If a sata cd/dvd drive, better to use Sata 0 port on motherboard. NEVER reset anything until you have tried asking in Tech forums or even in Yahoo Answers.

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Need more information. Make and model etc. You reset to manufacturer settings where? From a recovery partition? Try booting to your bios and see if the drive is listed there, if not then you may have a loose connection or the drive may have failed.

Mark

could do with a little more information how old is it is the heads dirty is there power going to it i may well just have failed or the motor or belt may have went.

kbos2hm

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