Hi my disk drive just stopped working.

i ripped a cd with iTunes then realise that the 1st track hadn't ripped properly so i put the CD back in but nothing happened apart from the read led flashing. the drive wouldn't recognize there was a CD in there. i tried a different cd same result so i tried a DVD and a software cd and none of them worked either.

i have tried uninstalling the drive restarting then reloading the drive, unplugging the drive restarting with it unplugged then plugging it back in then restarting again and no difference.

i was thinking that the lens was dirty or has died but then i put a blank cdrw in and it read it fine but still wont read another Cd's.

I have tried searching the net and this site for an answer to this fault but i cant find any info anywhere.

i have looked on the lg site and they have a firmware update but its from 2003 and the drive has worked faultlessly until 30min ago so i don't think that is the problem.

the drive is a LG GCC-4480B CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive on a winxp home sp2 machine.

thanks in advance for the help this has me stumped i have no idea what it is

thanks again
Alex