I was checking my laptop yesterday, I went to my computer, and saw, removeable storage, and DVD drive, the removable storage hadn't been there before. I am thinking that it went back, after I went to search for hardware from the control panel. I am hoping that and the fact I redownladed the hard drive---the DVD hard drive, that it will play and read my DVDs again. I have no idea why it stopped. The DVD drive and the CD drive---because I have both, could have disconnected. I read in another place, that it sometimes helps to clean the lense with rubbing alhocoloh, where can I get that here? would perfume work? because I know that perfum contains high amount of alhocohol. I don't know. I really want to be able to watch my DVDs again, and I want to be able to fix the problem myself, because I really don't want to spend anymore money. We've already wasted money on the DVD player that doesn't work. I'm going to be taking that with me, and see, if they can do something with it. if not then the last restort, is to replace it, what else can I do?