Re: SA80 Cannot Find DVD-RAM Drive

A client gave it to a backyard tech because the DVD drive wasn't working. Apparently he got it working, and formatted and reinstalled the computer - Thus leaving it without drivers. What's more, he formatted it badly, screwed up the MBR a bit.
Anyhow, I completely wiped the HDD, and got halfway through installing windows XP Pro before I realised that I was installing the wrong one for her key. Cancelled it, and the installer threw a bit of tanty - So when I put Home back in, it tried to boot up the pro installer off the HDD - It was just a big mess.
Blue screens and issues. So I popped in Vista, and used THAT disk to format the computer (As Vista was reading a driver error in regards to both disk and hard drives I didn't bother to install it, and simply used recovery console, and the words 'Format C:').
And now the DVD drive is not working again. Anyone with any bright ideas that will save me an aneurism?
It's not displayed under BIOS (But it's a laptop, so it might no be supposed to.),
And when I changed the boot order to go from disc it jumps straight to the disk drive - Which no longer has an OS, and thus informs me that BootMGR is missing. Went through PXE, and it can't pick up the drive either.
The drive does seem to be spinning, but then dies away.
I don't know how the previous tech solved it. I could rip this laptop to pieces looking for a broken cable, but I doubt that's the problem.
Info; Satellite A80 1.86, 1gb RAM, 60gb HDD. drive is a DVD-RAM. And it's a P006andsoonandsoforth.
So, any ideas?

> Update - Got the disk drive working again. I'm going to operate under the theory that the drive is sensitive and that the owner must have knocked it about some - As all I did was wiggle the tray a little bit.
Great! Thanks for this feedback

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Message Edited by bodmaster on 07-18-2008 09:51 PM
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