CD and DVD rom not functioning

My Thinkpad z60m 2530-38U, I upgraded it to Vista Home Premium and to a bigger hard disk; everything worked fine, until I noticed that I am unable to read or write CD's or DVD's. I have obtained help from this forum before, and I'd appreciate if anybody can share with me a possible solution for this problem. Thanks
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Try reseating the drive first. Then go to this Microsoft site and run the "FixIt" utility:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Let me know if this corrects your problem
Cheers,
Mark
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Quote from: ici on 08-February-06, 01:06:02
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