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Just find something Bizarre. I went on one of my family members laptop and she had the same problem as me, the DVD drive is gone! She has a dell laptop too. And the weird part is that she hasn't used the laptop for like a month now and she is on windows 8.1.

I may do that

Thanks you! I will probably send it in sometime in October since I am busy with other things. :)

Well, I just removed the drive, there was no sort of reset button. I didn't want to unscrew anything else on the drive. So, I put it back in the slot and turned on my laptop. Still nothing, which is a shame. Someone told me that there is a little company local where I am that does computer...

Well, I just removed the drive, there was no sort of reset button. I didn't want to unscrew anything else on the drive. So, I put it back in the slot and turned on my laptop. Still nothing, which is a shame. Someone told me that there is a little company local where I am that does computer...

I guess I should try that when I get the chance. My laptop battery is removable.

Finished talking to Dell. They said that my warranty is expired so I would have to pay a charge to get my laptop repaired which is around $150 I think and that's just a waste. The guy did say I could try resetting the optical drive.. But I was confused by what he meant.

I have not spoke to dell since their support isn't available until Monday (today). I will check my BIOS once again and see if my DVD drive is there or not. If it is I will most certainly go back to windows 8.1. And if my DVD drive is 'broken' I will buy an external one since sending it in for...

I've tried that too, it said "Operation Completed Successfully", but when I restarted my computer there was nothing. When I looked in the registry it did show Controller0 there already.

I'm currently not on my laptop but when I checked device manager DVD wasn't listed

I am currently not on my laptop but when I last checked the DVD drive wasn't listed

I've tried this and it didn't work for me! :(

I've tried this option too and it didn't work for me! :/

Thank you, I think I'll contact dell to see what they say.

Just tried that and it didn't work. I don't know how my DVD drive could've gone broke just from resetting the computer. It was completely fine before.