Instead of panicking, Maya remembered a few tricks. First, she restarted the laptop—sometimes a frozen driver was the issue. No luck. Then, she went into (right-click the Start button), found the PLDS DVD-RW DA8AESH under DVD/CD-ROM drives , uninstalled it, and restarted the PC. Windows automatically reinstalled the driver. Still, the tray refused to budge.
Click. Whirr. Nothing.
Maya’s old laptop had a secret weapon: a drive. It was a slim, tray-loading optical drive, barely noticeable on the side of her trusty Windows 7 laptop. For years, it silently burned MP3 compilations and installed ancient software. But one day, Maya needed to retrieve family photos from a CD-R. She pressed the eject button. plds dvd rw da8aesh