DVD-ROM on Satellite L300-144 (PSLB0E) not working

Hi all
I have a problem with my DVD drive not working.
When I bought the notebook 2 months ago it was working fine, After about 2 weeks the DVD drive started reading some DVD's and not reading others. I decided that I was going to down grade from Vista to XP to support programming languages and DB management tools not working on Vista. After formatting and loading XP the DVD drive did exactly the same. Now 2 months down the line it's not reading or writing any DVD's and not writing CD's although it is still reading DVD's.
I've followed steps on the forum for removing the drive from Device Manager and then removing Upper and Lower Filters, although I couldn't find any Upper or Lower Filters in the folder specified by forum users. I restarted the machine and the driver was reloaded without any luck. When opening the DVD drive in My Computer it is a blank screen as it would be for a writable compilation although the DVD has information on, even original DVD movies does exactly the same.
I've also tried recovering the Vista installation from the recovery DVD and it is not reading the DVD.
I've looked in the user manual where it says that the machine should have one of the following drives Panasonic UJ-870B/UJ-870F, Hitachi GSA-T40N/GSA-T40F, Pioneer DVR-KD08TBM/DVR-KD08TBF, Samsung TS-L632H/TS-L632P or Toshiba SD-L802B. However if I go to My Computer / Device manager / Nero Info tool it all displays the DVD drive as SD-L622A drive. The driver info is as follows Microsoft 5.1.2535.0 (2001/07/01) with firmware version T070.
With the Toshiba assits software the drive also fails.
Is there any driver update that will help or firmware updates or any other solutions available to me?
Thanks

hi,
you wrote
+I've also tried recovering the Vista installation from the recovery DVD and it is not reading the DVD.+
this tells me that your DVD drive is broken. Hardware defect.
go to a Toshiba ASP. I think your notebook is still under warranty.
cu

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