Cd/dvd drive no longer in bios-satellite a75 s206

I searched around here for a fix, guess I'm stuck-drive works in two other laptops, recognized as dvd drive, plays dvd's-tried the microsoft fix, but the filters mentioned don't exist in my registry in the location that's given-cdgone was no help-downloaded and installed the drivers given on toshibas' site for this model-bios was done as well-nothing was working, so I tried a new motherboard-same problem-hope someone can shed some light on this-have the system recovery disc, but it's of no use without a drive-please help...

It is a bad piece of hardware. You have eliminated all other possibilities. You need to replace the optical drive. In the meantime you can install the software across a network by making the optical drive on another computer within the network shared and access the files on the disk from the laptop. Or you can get a usb dvd drive or you can copy the contents of the cd onto a flash drive and install from there.

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