K, so maybe you all could help me with this problem my computer seems to be having.

About a month ago, my laptop stopped recognizing that it had a CD/DVD drive. It totally stopped showing up in the boot menu as well as the list of drives on the computer, and it stopped opening if the button was pushed to open it.

The weird thing is, it still opens fine right before windows boots up on the laptop. I tried booting into linux, but even then it didn't recognize the cd drive. Also, I have sometime had the computer recognize the drive was still there, it just didnt recognize that it was a burner, it just recognized it as a normal cd/dvd drive.

I really do not want to send my laptop into hp for repairs as this is my only working computer and I need it for school.

Can any of you think of something I could do on my end to fix this problem?