Someone must know how I can fix my disc drive?  

I'm not exactly computer savvy, I play games, I do graphics and video, but the innnerworkings are beyond me. I have a basic grasp, but that's as far as it goes.

Anyway I was using my computer fine, turned it off one night and when I next turned it on it wouldn't start and said I had to do a system restore, which I did.
Since then my drive will just not work. I can see it under 'my computer' scanned for viruses and checked everything was up to date and it is.
It won't recognise discs (CD/Games/DVDS) and I'm at a loss for how to fix it.

If anyone can help I'd be very grateful.

Thanks :)

Dell Inspiron 545, Desktop

Are you running on one hard drive, or more than one?

You state it was having problems recognizing discs, so how old is this computer by any chance? When did you get it from Dell or from a store?

Try also rebooting the computer one more time, see if you can get it to see any CD/DVDs you have.

First guess is that the CD/DVD drive may have gone bad. If it is an old computer, it might not be under warranty anymore and you may need to just have the DVD drive replaced.

Worst case scenario - System is going really bad.

Liisa said:

Dell Inspiron 545, Desktop

that's not enough info.. with a Dell you have to know the 7 digit service tag in order to get a list of hardware. if you don't know what it is or how to find it, go to support.dell.com, click on drivers and downloads, then below where it says enter your service tag, there's a link where Dell can find it for you.

With Dells, the same model number can have 100 different permutations of chipsets, drives, cpus, graphics and sound options and so on, that's why I always check the service tag.