DVD Rom disapered from "my computer"

I went to rip some CD's today and noticed my DVD R/W Has vanished from "my Computer". I can go into device manager and see it, but it has a yellow exclamation point next to it. I tried to update the driver but windows says it has the best driver already. I uninstalled the driver and rebooted to the same thing. Any thoughts? I am realy hoping my drive didn't die I checked the BIOS and it knows it is there as well. If you need further info just ask.

Thanks in advance

Geeve

Edit: I have ran my antivirus and malwarebytes and neither have found anything

sygnus21 said:

Check these Microsoft fixes...

Your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programs

Your CD or DVD drive cannot read or write media

Thanks sygnus, however neither worked. The first and the second found the problem but didn't/couldn't fix it. Any other thoughts?

Geeve

It is SATA. It was working earlier this week, I just checked and everything seems plugged in correctly, I never uplugged it or anything. Here are some screen shots of what I am seeing:







Thanks

Geeve

theog said:

1) Try uninstalling the drivers in device manager. Reboot.

2) Unplug Data & power cables, restart,shutdown, plug cables back in check BIOS.

sygnus21 said:

When you say it was working earlier this week did you add something to the system during that time? Software/Hardware??? If so, can you try a system restore to a time before the changes and see what happens?

Let me know.

PS theog has a point, but I would do number one first than see what happens before trying number two. However don't forget about my question above.

I uninstalled and rebooted still the same problem. I will try number 2 here in a second.

I rolled back and got no where, the only thing I have installed is a drum looping program and it was working just fine. Other than that it was just the .NET update from tuesday, I have done no hardware changes. I am really perplexed