CD drive help please

[Tsumego]

It doesnt seem to turn on. I dont want to restore, as that will wipe out several programs i have. Any ideas? Restarting doesnt help.

[Paulisacretin]

Yesh shir you may wanna pop the trunk off your pc and have yourshelf a gander at the internal workingsh of the pc. There could be a problem with one of the wiresh. Failing that, buy a new cd drive, they arent spensive.

[DM was on fire!]

Skull, what the *heck* was that? Here's a English translation.

Yes sir you may wanna pop the case off your pc and have yourself a ton at the internal workings of the pc. There could be a problem with one of the wires. Failing that, buy a new cd drive, they arent expensive

[SyNiX]

go tooooo device manager and remove w/e drive windows has installed for it...reboot your comp and let windows detect your cd rom drive...if it still doesnt work then google up the cd-rom's manufacturerrr and get a driver update

[shapu]

More to the point, when you go to device manager, see what the error is that shows up for that device.

Worst-case scenario is that you have to buy a new CD-Rom, but this is the chance to replace it with that CDRW you've always wanted.

[Hunter Lupe]

If you somehow knocked the power wire out of the drive (!!!), it would neither show up in task manager or turn on. That's rather unlikely, though.