CD/DVD Not working on Satellite A100.

Hi
When I put a CD into my computer, it does'nt get read. And when I go into My Computer, there's no sign that I even have a CD/DVD driver. This is very annoying, since I bought my computer for gaming. Ive no idea what to do.
Does anyone know what's wrong?

I can see it in the boot menu, but when i run the option called CD/DVD it comes up with a bit of text which was pretty hard to read, because it dissappeared while saying that it does'nt exist. The recovery disk didnt change anything. I tried running the Toshiba Diagnostic Tool, and everything was as it should be, exept for the CD/DVD Driver, which it just skipped.

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