Please Help me..... DVD drive not detected, Vista home basic 32 bit

Hi,
I have a compaq presario v3702au laptop with Vista basic 32 bit OS.
The dvd drive has suddenly vanished and is not detect by device manager. It show up in the BIOS and brifly powers up while booting(tray comes out on pressing the button) , but does not recieve power once booted( tray does not come out on pressing the button).
there are no upper and lower filters present so this remedy is not for me, ms fixit tool also could not help as it could not find any optical drive.
The hardware itself seems to be alright because if I press F8 to get to boot options ( Safe mode, etc) and insert a disc , the drive tries read it (ie. Drive receives power, tray opens and the disc also spins), but once the boot starts the dvd button becomes non functional as if it is not receiving power.
I really need my optical drive and would greatly appreciate any help on this .
Thanks in advance,
Sankr

So does it fully boot from the optical drive? All the other symptoms you describe are fully consistent with a dead drive, but if you can boot to a bootable disk then the drive is OK

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