Drive stopped working today

[misswats0n]

Approximatly 2 days ago I reformatted my computer so I have to tediously reinstall every update. After I installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1, my dvd drive stopped appearing in "My Computer" and it no longer reads dvds/cds. I tried going into the device manager and this is what I see:

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N ATA Device..the picture next to it has a yellow exclamation sign.

When I right-click on this and go to properties, I get under device status:

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.

 

I have tried to see if there is an update for my driver, and there wasn't. So the next thing I did was disable the drive, and then enable it to see if it was just a random glitch (thx again, Windows), and last but not least I uninstalled the drive and restarted my computer, thanks to plug & play it would normally re-install it's own driver, BUT it said that it couldn't install the driver. Should I just replace the whole drive, or is there a way to get it back?

[zinglebarb]

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

[Guest Wolfeymole]

May I ask why you have not acquired Service Pack 2 for Vista also?

 

Consider reading this thread as well.

 

http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/dvd-cd-rom-drives-and-printer-scanner-issues/4325-cd-dvd-drives-not-recognised.html