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Originally Posted by TheCaptain  my first guess is that the connection cables are loose. The ones inside your tower. If not, there is a probably a problem with the driver. If you know the make and model you can look it up from the manufacturer and try a newer one, or you can simply add/remove the hardware and reinstall it with a generic driver. Did you recently uninstall some software for burning dvd's or anything like that? |
As I mentioned, the pc is a laptop, not a tower. So I suppose if the problem is a loose connection it would be between the drive and the motherboard in the laptop. I've never took the drive out before, (apparently it isn't difficult) and I've never tried opening up the laptop to look around in there either. I'm not sure how likely it might be that there's a loose connection I'd be able to detect anyway if I did try to open things up and take a look. In response to your question, no I did not recently uninstall software for burning dvd's or anything like that. I may try doing what you suggest in regard to the driver, even though it's a fairly new laptop and I think I already have some kind of automatic function that periodically updates device drivers if necessary. thanks