Optical Drive no longer showing on C drive

Hi everyone,
My optical drive (CD/DVD) is no longer accessable, either via C drive or any other means.
The drive is still mechanically working, accepting and ejecting discs, but I have no meams of accessing it.
I'm thinking this is a driver/software issue and have tried to download drivers from HP but no luck.
My TouchSmart is an IQ512me (64 bit).
Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi,
Please try Run now from the following link:
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us
also check the following methods:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01895589&tmp_task=solveCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc...
Regards.
BH
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