My disc drive does not appear in my computer

HP pavilion dv6-1340sa. Windows7 64-bit
Can anyone help. I seem to have lost my disc drive completely. It's not even showing up my computer. Has a drive been lost some where and how can I get it back

Hi,
Are you talking about ODD ? Please try this to fix:
   http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us
Good luck.
BH
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