Notebook DVD Drive Problem

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Had this problem for a while and I am running out of ideas. Will try and describe it as best as possible.

I've had this laptop a year now - Packard Bell Easynote R4650.

When I first got it everything was working fine, no problems. A few months later the DVD drive just dissapears from My computer and the device manager (it is still showing under hidden devices ie. not plugged in) and fails to work. Recently I bought a new slimetype DVD drive, everything went great, it installed and worked. After about 30 minutes, the same thing happened it dissapeared. I had daemon installed so I thought the generic cd-rom drive may be conflicting so I uninstalled it, then reinstalled the dvd drive. Once again worked fine, watched a DVD, removed the DVD, after a while, the drive removed itself from my computer etc etc.

After this I set device manager to show all hidden devices and deleted everything under the DVD/CD Device section, which included, my new DVD Drive, the old one and a few duplicated SCSI's for generic CD-Roms. When I done this and restarted, it did not even pick up the new DVD-Drive in plug and play to install.

I went back to a restore point for this morning and done it again, I now have the new DVD Drivers installed but the same thing has happened, no DVD Drive available. Just went into device manager to try and get some settings but it is now removed from that too, can't remember if I done that or not, this post must be too long :P

Will get settings up asap, hopefully someone can help in the meantime, thanks.