So...a long story short...
I have a systemax laptop (bought from Tigerdirect.com) about a year ago while I was in Iraq (army dude here). My disc drive is a "slimtype combo lsc-24081". It, in short, is takin' a smoke break. This happened once while I was in Iraq, but was able to fix it my using a system restore point. The problem is seemingly software, not hardware related. Going to "my computer" shows the drive there (dvd/cd-rw drive E:, and dvd drive G: ). There is only one drive, so I guess it splits itself for whatever reason. I put a cd or dvd in, my little "you've got a freakin' cd in yo' drive" light comes on, and it spins and spins with the little "i'm thinking" computer light flashing. Then, it just stops. Says screw it, and lights up a malboro. I have tried a restore point, updating the driver, disabling then re-enabling, THEN again trying to update the driver (most current driver on already), tried rolling back driver but there wasn't one to roll back to. I believe this came on this time and last, in correlation with cleaning up the puter and taking off some media players like musicmatch, interactual, etc. So, any help would be nice, fore I might have to dropkick this thing soon. Hope to hear from someone soon...and I hope I gave enough info...if not...just bark at me and tell me what else you need. Thanks for whatever help you can give!