Laptop keeps loosing DVD drive.

[Newteach]

Every now and then My DVD multidrive vanishes from my Toshiba Satellite Laptop 'My Computer'. If I place a cd or dvd in the drive when it isn't shown it does nothing. If I go into Device Manager and refresh or search for changes sometimes it comes back, sometimes I have to restart. When it is visable it plays and writes perfectly to CD and DVD. This is a pain and starting to become very frustrating. Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.

NT.

[Driftwood]

Hi
I notice you havent received any help with this.
I came accross a similar problem recently with a laptop.
In this case the combo drive had been removed & refitted at some earlier stage. The securing screw had been left out & after some use the drive had worked its way out to a point where it was intermitantly loosing contact.
A firm push back in was required to fully relocate the conection.

[wainuitech]

Actually sounds like a connection problem. How old is the Laptop?