Softwaremaniac first of all I want to congratulate you on reaching and surpassing that high mile stone of 16,000 posts only thoroughbreds reach those heights and secondly as you were responding to my post I was just coming on the forum and explaining how I stumble on the solution to this weird problem I had. My dvd and my wireless wifi internet connection was non functional and I fix the wifi issue with a usb wireless adapter which I plug into the usb port but that port was the esata usb port that was unbeknownst to me at that time . The wifi was working but the dvd drive disappeared and when I notice that the usb adapter was plugged into that usb port I switch the adapter to a regular usb port and the dvd/cd rom appeared . It seems that using the esata usb port by mistake cause conflict with the dvd/cd rom drive some way, now the dvd/cd rom has reappeared and its working fine. I have turned the laptop on off 7 times to see if this fix will hold up and so far it has. Thanks everyone for your time and attention assisting me and guiding to take courage and go inside this laptop and investigate this problem more deeply. I notice all the techs and members that looked at this post with much gratitude and appreciation . HAPPY NEW YEAR TEAM.