GSA-H40N disc drive not working after installing windows 7 (x64)

A few months ago I noticed my disc drive wasn't working - it isn't used much. Place a disc in and it whirls and clicks then tells me to insert a disc. I've cleaned it but it's just the same. So I bought an external disc drive and that works fine so sorted my problem at that time. I now have...

I am trying to install a game but my DVD drive isn't reading the disc. I put the disc in and I can hear it start to run but then it stops and starts to make this jerking sound. It says there is no disc.

Hello, I recently was trying to reinstall windows onto my computer, but I noticed when I put the disc in the drive it wasnt being read. I tried deleting the lower level filter driver but this only stopped my disc drive from even being able to open once I restarted my computer (so now my windows...

I installed windows 7, I'm only done phase 2 and I can't even start phase 3 because my disk drive doesn't work. When I load up My Computer I can see the drive, but when I put in a disk it disappears and I get a message: "Storage Device Connected A storage device was connected. If this device is a...

After i did install Windows 7 (retail) my dvd drive have stop working, i cant install any games/programs anymore. It did work just fine when i did use Vista. I have been looking in regedit for upperfilter and lowerfilter that some troubleshooting suggest, but i dont have a upper and lowerfilter...