X205 9800 disc drive won't read discs, have external CD/DVD ROM.

I have an X205 9800.  I upgraded to Windows 7.  After a few weeks the disc drive stopped working.  It will not read any of my discs/cds/dvd/etc.
I ordered an external Toshiba USB disc drive.  It works great!  No issues, but I want to use my recovery media I ordered from Toshiba.com.  It will read, initially, from the external USB disc drive.  But once I initialize the recovery media it tries to use the internal disc drive, not the USB one.
I restarted the laptop.  Hit F12.  Changed it from my internal to my external.  Saved changes.  Still nothing.
I even tried disabling the internal one as well.  Still same problem.  The laptop wants to read the media from the internal disc drive and it will not read any disc I have.
How do I get my laptop to do a full recovery from my USB disc drive instead of my internal one on my laptop? 
Or...
Is there a fix to get my internal disc drive to read my cds/dvds? 
Any help would be deeply appreciated.

JDWoodward wrote:
I have an X205 9800.  I upgraded to Windows 7.  After a few weeks the disc drive stopped working.  It will not read any of my discs/cds/dvd/etc.
I ordered an external Toshiba USB disc drive.  It works great!  No issues, but I want to use my recovery media I ordered from Toshiba.com.  It will read, initially, from the external USB disc drive.  But once I initialize the recovery media it tries to use the internal disc drive, not the USB one.
I restarted the laptop.  Hit F12.  Changed it from my internal to my external.  Saved changes.  Still nothing.
I even tried disabling the internal one as well.  Still same problem.  The laptop wants to read the media from the internal disc drive and it will not read any disc I have.
How do I get my laptop to do a full recovery from my USB disc drive instead of my internal one on my laptop? 
Or...
Is there a fix to get my internal disc drive to read my cds/dvds? 
Any help would be deeply appreciated.
Hello,
Is the internal DVD drive recognized by the laptop? Can you see it on computer?
If yes- Try going to the device manager, uninstall the DVD driver then restart the laptop. The DVD driver should be installed automatically after restarting the laptop.
If no - Do the upper and lower filter troubleshooting.
Click on start, type REGEDIT on RUN or if you are using vista/windows 7, tyoe it on the search programs and files..
It will go directly to registry editor.
Look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE click on + sign or the arrow then look for SYSTEM click on + sign or the arrow then look for CurrentControlSet click on + sign or the arrow then look for Control click on + sign or the arrow then look for Class click on + sign or the arrow then look for {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} click on + sign or the arrow then look on the right part of the window, look for LowerFilter and upper filter. Delete them or even if you can only find one of them, just delete it then restart the laptop.
Hope this help.

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