Okay, I read a bazillion posts and if someone has asked this already, I apologize, but I didn't see it.....

I have had my Toshiba Satellite 1135 laptop for a little over a year, and never had a problem.

Yesterday, I put a DVD in to watch (rented, so it's a real DVD...), and nothing happened, it just clicked and whirred and clicked some more.

I put in an audio CD. Worked fine. Software CD worked fine.

I tried burning a CDR and it didn't work.

After a while, I noticed that if I go to "my computer" drive D: is listed as DVD/CDRW Drive, but in the next column, under "type," it is identified as a "CD Drive."

I went to device manager. My drive is listed as Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R2412, but if I double-click on it, the tab that states "Device Type: DVD/CDROM Drives, and under Manufacturer it says "(Standard CDROM Drives)"

I have no clue as to whether this is a BIOS error, a Windows XP error, or what.....I did notice all my drivers in the drivers tab say things like cdrom.sys, and none say DVD.

Help, anyone????????????

tony