Satellite A660 - Optical Drive Power: OFF

I have an A660 and I'm trying to make a System Repair Disk but the message "Windows did not find a CD/DVD burner comes up. I also noticed that the icon in the right hand side of the task bar says that the "Optical Drive Power: OFF".
I'm running Windows 7. I think it may be some power saving setting outside of the eco utility.
Can someone please offer some help on this it would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

This is a strange bug that I have
When i unistalled dvd/cd-rom drives and the same for the modem, then scaned for hardware changes the wierdest thing happened. Modem driver installed OK then in the DVD/CD-ROM Drives folder both the MAT****A BD-CMB UJ141ES device and HUAWEI Mass storeage USB device appear. This has been the case since discovering the ODD is OFF.
By the way when I first discovered the problem and checked the DVD/CD-ROM Drives 2 folders were there:
--HUAWEI Mass storeage USB device
--HUAWEI Mass storeage USB device
and no sign of MAT****A BD-CMB UJ141ES device
Still curious about the FN+tab (maybe different model A660 series)
Couldn't find VAP for my model:
Model Name Satellite A660
Part Number PSAW3A-07U00R
OS Version Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
BIOS Version 2.20
HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Network Card version=6,0,1,267 MAC Address=00:1E:10:1F:B6:81
Modem HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Modem version=2.0.6.702
IDE Device TOSHIBA MK6465GSX
MAT****A BD-CMB UJ141ES FW version=
Notice how FW version = (missing).
Even removed ODD PnP no response.
Learning some good stuff here.. and thanks for help so far.
Message was edited by: Rick67

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