My acer laptop has stopped detecting dvds

[Lostmachinos]

i have an Acer Laptop, only a few years oild and the DVD Drive Icon has suddenly dissapeared and won't load any discs i put inside. I have been recently ripping dvds and copying dvds using the Maigc DVD Ripper and Copier. Can anyone help ? Thanks alot

 

[jsmakkar]

Read this thread http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/242550-32-matshita-850s-device-problems

Follow the post by Othman Zalloum

 

[jsmakkar]

You may also try this:
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us