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I have just re-read your post and now realise you are talking about the CD/DVD drive.
Go into Control Panel -> System--> hardware and select the CD drive and uninstall it.
Reboot Windows and it should re-detect it. Windows has its own generic drivers for handling optical drives and doesn't need any extra files.
If the drive still does not appear to be working I would suggest that the drive has failed. The interface logic of the drive is working, hence it being seen in the BIOS. I suspect that the problem lies in the reading circuits. This is not uncommon and replacement DVD drives are cheap and easy to fit.
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