DVD drive disappeared in vaio laptop

[Smo-king]

Good morning,

I have an old viao laptop and suddenly from my morning login the DVD -drive in the my computer got disappeared, I have installed the windows xp on it. I don't know how it got happen, but its really strange for me. I need your help.

[Paxton]

Refer to this Guide first : Getting back disappeared CD & DVD drive

Now refer to following similar issue threads:

DVD and CD drives have become invisible
DVD drive invisible!
DVD Drive disappeared on Acer Aspire 5101 AWLMi
http://forums.techarena.in/xp-hardware/691938.htm

Hope this will help to resolve your issue.

[Venator]

Once i faced the same problem and got manage to solve by the following procedure :

Your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programs

[darshit]

In control panel , go into computer management and then device manager and selct you DVD drive and right click on it and then disable it and then again do right click and enable it. This should resolve your issue. Good luck