CD-ROM/DVD-Rom drive not detected

I have a Toshiba Satellite l300d with an OS Vista Home premium. It worked fine for 3 years, but last week, I can't find the cd drive in 'my computer' and am unable to read DVDs, games, etc.

The Toshiba MK1652GSK ATA device appears in Device Manager and I've updated the driver as well as to try to uninstall and reinstall. However, in disk management that only the c drive and e drive (data) are listed with another disk without a name I can't access, when I right click above just said 'help '.
I tried to delete upper and lower filters with regedit and similar solutions with registry entries. Mr Fixit shows that the problem is that the driver is not detected, but does not bring a solution.
I have idea about what to do next really, any help?

Hello

1. don't you make changes to the computer until the problem occurred?

2. what exactly happens when you try to read the disc?

3. you get any error message?

I suggest you to assign the drive letter for the drive using CommandLink and check if it helps:

http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757491 (WS.10) .aspx #BKMK_CMD

(Applies to Windows Vista)

Also note the updates that you are uninstalling.

Hope this information is useful.

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