CD/DVD Drive not responding

[tharef]

Hey guys, for some reason my CD/DVD drive is not accessible. There is no Icon in My Computer and when I type "D:" into the address field nothing loads, it says drive not accessible or something. Then when I goto Device manager, I see in the field "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)" What is going on? the drivers have been installed properly and it has been working perfectly for the past 6 months. It is possible that someone opened my computer while I was away and fumbled around with cables while im gone, what should I do to fix this problem, im comfortable with taking the computer apart but im not a hardware techie.

Thanks alot in advance.

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[1967mustangman]

When you open up you computer there should be two cables sticking out of the back of the cd/dvd drive. One will be the power cable and will have several wires sticking out of it. The other will have a flat grey zebra cable sticking out of it. Check and make sure both of them are snuggly connected. If they are not then reconnect them. The power cable is molded to fit the shape of the connector and can only go one way. The other one (the IDE cable) should have a notch at the top of the cable and a notch in the receptical. Line both of those up and plug it in (there is also a missing pin on both the drive and in the cable connector block).

If that dies not work then go into the device manager select the cd/dvd drive and click remove. Then restart you computer and it should auto-sense your drive and install the correct drivers.