DVD rom is missing

[tewas]

I have interesting problem that i have not seen before. I have Dell Precision M4500 and i set it up with dual boot. First partition is windows 7 and the second it Ubuntu. The problem is with windows partition and inability to find/recognize the DVD rom. When i open device manager there are no missing drivers or unknown devices. In the Disk Management panel i don't see DVD rom at all (i do see virtual dvd drive).
I checked een viewer and found following error:

Event ID 7
The device,\Device\Cdrom1, has a bad block.

I had no problems with the drive itself when installing windows 7 or ubuntu, but after installing ubuntu my windows side does not recognize DVD anymore. When i put DVD in, my drive spins initially and it still works with Ubuntu, so it is not hardware error.

Any help would be appreciated.


Thank you

 

[theog]

Try this:

Your CD or DVD drive cannot read or write media

 

[Mycatisbigfoot]

It sounds like the Data cable to the disk drive is going bad, or it is the drive its self, They can die at any given point with out warning

 

[Keiichi25]

Hmmm...

I don't know if this is still one of the funky problems with Windows (XP had this problem, but mostly due to running for a while, where sometimes, the OS just 'loses' the CD/DVD drives)

How long have you had Windows running? Have you recently restarted or is this Ubuntu VMing it?

 

[Carl Lawrence]

Also check inside your PC.