dvd player is no longer recognised on my laptop...yet appears to be working...?

[joko]

my internal dvd writer/player has stopped playing anything and doesnt appear as a drive in computer or in device manager...its as though it is not there...

however, the light comes on, the tray comes out, when i put a disc in, it whizzes and whirrs and beeps as though its about to play...then... nothing...

recently i have deleted a lot of stuff off my computer... could i have deleted something that makes my computer not recognise it anymore?
cant think what but ...

thanks
(compaq presario f500, win 7)

[ChuckFickens]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894730

[joko]

cheers chuck... i am planning on doing a reformat soon...setting the comp to factory settings...will that sort it out?

[AlBags]

Well over the top waiting for that. To prevent any other problem occurring,
just follow the registry clean-up mod .. It's easy.

[joko]

i do a reset regularly...i like to wipe it now and again and start from scratch

but i looked at that page and that seems to be for xp and vista, and also the computer cannot see that there is even a dvd drive connected ...so i can't click on any icons etc...

the drive is clearly trying to work so is powered etc..

[joko]

ahh...just attached my external hard drive...and after a few mins the DVD drive powered up and is now being recognised!

obviously i have copied the relevant file over somehow...

can someone please give me an idea of the file name/type etc that i should copy back over? just an idea of what its likely to be called and ill just copy all back over...

thanks

[AlBags]

Internal drives are natively supported, as are all standard external drives .. and do not need to be software installed. The only thing you 'might' ever need drivers for are the interfaces.
Their display and recognition is only controlled from the registry.