start>control panel>system>hardware>device manager

see what shows up there..expand the cd/dvd drive menu and look at properties and choose trouble shoot...perhaps even go so far as to uninstall, reboot, and see if your OS auto installs it and then perhaps it might work...dunno...or it just might be blind coincidence that it has died...

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