Problems with the CD/DVD drive on my presario CQ50-108NR

Hey there.
I picked up the above listed laptop a short time ago, and I have discovered a problem that I can't seem to solve.
The CD/DVD drive reads and plays movies well enough, but it will not read CD's; any CD, be it data, music, images, whathaveyou. When I try to access the CD it keeps telling me that I need to insert a disk into the drive.
Again, it plays DVD movies well enough, not a hitch there. It just won't read CD's.
I'd love to assume that it's a driver issue (which would be the simplest and cheapest to fix), but I hate assuming anything where computers are concerned.
Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Is this a used Notebook?
Use device manager to uninstall the DVD drive, open DM, expand the DVD drive, then right clcik on the dvd drive and select "uninstall" Keep DM open, now right click on any device and select "scan for hardware changes" Windows will reinstall a clean copy of the driver. Reboot the notebook
If this does not fix it, the drive is bad.

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