Satellite L645 DVD Drive Quit Working

My laptop is less than a year old, the DVD drive just up and quit working. I've cleaned it, made sure it was "on" (no yellow triangle with the ! by it in the hardware list). I just don't know what to do next. Anyone know why this happened and how to fix it? Thank you.

ebfloyd06 wrote:
My laptop is less than a year old, the DVD drive just up and quit working. I've cleaned it, made sure it was "on" (no yellow triangle with the ! by it in the hardware list). I just don't know what to do next. Anyone know why this happened and how to fix it? Thank you.
Hello,
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver for the DVD drive?
Go to device manager, right-click on the DVD driver then click uninstall.
Restart the laptop after uninstalling the driver. It will automatically reinstall the driver.
Give us a response whether this will work or not.
Thanks

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