Windows not seeing internal DVD drive HP Pavilion?

i have a HP DV4000 notebook with the factory DVD RW. Windows can no longer recognize it. There is no drive letter associated with it nor is it in the device manager. The bios is a little difficult to read and does not cleary state which part is associated with the DVD. Its not totally dead as disks do spin up when inserted. I think its just out of warranty (typical) so I am hoping its software related. System scans with adware and antivirus software have found nothing.

Windows not seeing internal DVD drive HP Pavilion?nortan

TRY INSTALLING IT AGAIN USING A CD IN ANOTHER DRIVE.

OR ELSE GOTO CONTROL PANEL.

ADD OR REMOVE HARDWARE.

LOOK INTO THERE.

Windows not seeing internal DVD drive HP Pavilion?noton

well,

if you had a windows xp installation cd,

you can try to restart the machine off the cd,

basically all you're trying to do is find out the dvd drive is reading...

if you don't have one,

try to go to safe mode and see if you're drive shows and allows access to it..

you may have to reload the drivers for the dvd..