Missing D Drive on Toshiba Equium

I recently came to install a CD for a web cam and when I did the D drive wasn't present.
I used the run icon from the menu to try and install the disk but this didnt work.
Can anyone help to either identify where the drive has gone and how we can get it back or is this not possible?

To be honest I don't know what you are writing about.
For some people D is second partition on Hard disc drive and for some of them optical disc drive.
Is optical disc drive shown in windows explorer?
What is the status in device manager?

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