DVD drive completely missing on E4300 with Vista

I uninstalled Itunes, did the registry trick and others to no avail. I believe this is a Vista update gone bad. this appears to be an all too common and horrible bug. DVD does not show up in device manager or my computer AT ALL.

So, I was just wondering if any one had any Dell specific info on this. Thanks, Dave

 

Check in your dell control point / power manager if you did not turn your laptop in the "long lasting power mode" - this mode enable you to have lots of battery running time but also disable the dvd drive for this...

 

since it looks to be a tray feed. unscrew the locking screw then slide it out. and reinsert it

does it get power?

 

Also force Device Manager to search for new hardware.

John

 

Thanks. Guess what? I fixed it. BY unchecking BOOT from DVD in BIOS. It came right back. I am unsure what wil happen if I have to check that feature again, but at least I was able to burn my WHS DVD! Thanks for the help. I had not tried unplugging and replugging drive.