I have no activity on the dvd drive, dvd drive will not open, I believe the firmware has been erased. this is the first time I have ever had this happen when flashing a drive and shocked me when it happened that it just

up .
thanks I will try what you said and see what happens
Crazy

thanks man you came to the rescue again, took me a while to get it to reconize again but it worked when i restarted and re installed portio driver again
thanks man