Mac book pro won't detect my external superdrive

I just got a 2012 macbook pro. it has the 10.9.4 update. it doesn't come with a superdrive so i bought an external one. it worked for one day but when i tried to plug it in today nothing happened. The Mac didn't even recognize it. when I opened the DVD Player on my computer manually it says there is no disk or drive found. please help I don't know what to do.

Have you tried connecting your external drive to another computer?  It is possible that it is bad, and won't work with any system now.

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