Dd burner not recognised

[markym]

please advise if you can answer reasons my cd burner on a satellite toshiba a40-151 laptop has stopped being recognised.I cannot burn or play a cd but have only about 900mb of hard drive space at present could this cause a problem?thanks for any help.

 

[festerovic]

Does the OS not recognize the drive, or just certain software?

If you enter BIOS mode, does the device appear there?