System recovery on Satellite M100 due to CD/DVD drive not being recognised

Hi.
My computer won't recognise the internal CD/DVD drive anymore (eg. if I go to rip a CD with Media Player it says to install a CD drive first).
I have followed the FAQs on the Toshiba support page, and it has lead me to do a System Recovery. I followed the instructions (switch off, start up while holding "0", release 0 when computer beeps ...) but it isn't working.
The comp starts beeping as expected, but when I let go of "0" it just starts up windows as normal.
Can anyone help? Do I need to do the recovery with a CD instead? Obviously that will be a problem if the drive doesn't work though :(

So... after months of trying to fix this issue it would make sense that less than an hour after I've put a post asking for help, the thing would fix itself for no reason.
Yep. Seems to be working now. I have no idea why :/

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