Optical drive not showing up after installing SSD HD on satellite L75-B7150

I just installed an ssd drive in my satellite L75-B7150. I had to unscrew the locking screw on the optical drive and slide it out. Now it wont show up in this PC windows 8.1. it does have power and the light led comes on a while with a disk in it but then goes out. It seems to be plugged in ok as far as the power.Could it be a driver problem? there doesn't seem to be any specific drivers for it.The drive probably isn't making contact with the sata connection. Does any one know a trick to putting them in. the optical drive pushes in after the case is snapped together so unsnapping the case wouldn't help me.

make sure it is selected as the startup disc.    system preferences>startup disc> make sure new hdd is the default startup disc.

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