I have recently purchased a HP Pavilion db6 laptop but unfortunatly it is failing to register the CD/DVD drive.

It is powered and can open and close and spin disks up to operating speed but it cannot interface with the OS (Windows 7). It is not listed under device manager and disks with autorun do not work. I have looked at the BIOS boot settings also but that also fails to contain any sign of the drive (the only boot option is the hard drive).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to remedy the situation?


Thanks