No power to CD-Rom with hard-drive connected

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So, Everything was working swimmingly on my HP Pavillion laptop until
I get the message "operating system not found". I've never installed
or changed any hardware on the system.

After trying everything I could think of, I tried to boot from DVD-Rom.
No success at all.

Oddly enough, it seemed there was no power to the DVD-Rom drive. When
I
remove the harddrive, the DVD-ROM boots up fine, but with the harddrive
installed, the DVD-ROM does not spin at all (no power)

This is repeatable. Any ideas?