Satellite L300D-11V - DVD drive disappeared

I have an L300D 11V. The DVD drive seems to have disappeared can someone suggest a way of getting replacement drive? They don't appear to be in the computer.
thanks

Hi
Is the drive listed in device manager or where doesnt appear the drive exactly?
If you go into BIOS, can you see the drive there?
Anyway, in your case I would try to remove the upper- and lowerfilters as you can read here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

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