No DVD device present

With a movie DVD inserted into my Mac Book, I just tried running DVD
Player and got the following error message:
There was an initialization error
A valid DVD drive could not be found.[-70012]
Looking under Disc Burning in the hardware profile, I see:
No burning device was found. (etc)
Pressing the eject key has no effect. Holding down the trackpad button
while rebooting does not eject the DVD.
I'm confused. Help?
Josh
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From the manual:
If you can’t eject the disc, quit any applications that might be using the disc and try again.
If that doesn’t work, restart the computer while holding down the trackpad
button.
So if the above works and you are able to finally get the disk ejected, then I would consider doing a few restarts and giving it a few more tries, maybe with a different disk or with a CD.
If you just can't get it working at all, then you'd better take to an apple store or send it in.
Has your MacBook ever been able to read any disks (CDs or DVDs)?

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