After OS reinstallation on my A30 the drive stops to recognize DVDs

HI I'VE RECENTLY RE-INSTALLED MY OPERATING SYSTEM USING THE TOSHIBA SYSTEM DISKS AND NOW MY SD-R2412 DRIVE HAS STOPPED DETECTING AND SORTS OF DVD'S.
AFTER LOOKING AT FORUMS I'M STILL STUMPED FOR THE ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER ITS THE DRIVE, THE SYSTEM , THE DRIVERS OR WHAT.
ITS AN A30 SERIES BROUGHT IN DEC 03. PLEASE HELP.

Hello Scu
The fact is: If the unit is preinstalled with original recovery media the installation is absolutely clean and all hardware components are installed with the right driver.
What is the drive status in device manager? Is the drive recognized in Windows explorer? Please check the functionality with original DVD films? If there is no success I presume that the drive is defective and it is not known to me that you can fix it using some firmware or something like that.
In my opinion it is not problem of the operating system. It can be just DVD drive malfunction.

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