I have a Toshiba laptop and my CD/DVD drive suddently stopped being recognized by the computer. I was working with some DVD movie maker software to transfer old movies to DVD’s and now it’s like I don’t even have DVD drive. It worked a couple of days ago. Ran a diagnostic and it failed. Is there something I can do?
Pinnacle is the manufacturer of the software for the movie maker and they say that this is a common problem and says to change a particular item in the registry. I am very afraid to change anything in registry.

HEYY people i operate on vista 64 bit regular movie maker works but the 2.6 version does not support that plugin and pretty much no other ones from the internet. soo i tried to get adobe premier for vista its to confusing for me on vista. i cant download xp on this computer neither i forgot why but thats not an option. I can not do a system restore because there is no time when this worked and i have already tried to restore it didnt work. I have tried free registry errors they dont fix my movie maker 2.6 problem!!! plz dont give mme another one because im not paying for any registry cleaner that might not even work so dont write that as an answer. idk how to get movie maker 2.6 to work plz help plz!!! either that or can someone help me find a program with awesoe effects and transitions and a split screen effect to put 2 different movies on the same screen. I dont care if its a torrent or a program but u have to understand i cant buy ANYTHING. please help me.