DVD/CD Drive Problem: Works with DVDs, but won't Read CDs

As the title states, my laptop's CD drive will not read CDs (it is a satellite A205 by the way). The yellow light lights up, it makes noises as if it is trying to read the CD, but just doesn't do it. It won't show up as a CD being there when I look it up on "computer". On the other hand, when I put a DVD in, it works no problem. Anyone have any idea of what I could do? I've tried uninstalling the driver on device manager and restarting the computer, thus allowing it to reinstall it, and it didn't help. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Try cleaning out the drive with compressed air and/or a lens cleaning disk. This often times helps.
Next try booting to a Linux Live CD or some other Self Booting CD like Memtest. If it doesn't then you know for sure that the drive itself is defective as you are taking Windows out of the equation. If it does, then you know it's a Windows problem which will more than likely require restoring the system to it's factory out of box state using the Recovery DIsks to fix.
If the drive works with a Live CD then try going into device manager, uninstall the DVD drive, then reboot the system to have Windows automatically re-install it. This sometimes helps as well.
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

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