I am having the same problem with my drive except it will not read either CD's or DVD's. I have success with it after restarting, but it fails to read again after a couple of hours of being inactive.
I tried the suggestion given by GeForceboy, but it didn't do any good. If it doesn't read anything that screen never comes up anyway.
I have uninstalled it, restarted to have the computer install the drivers. Didn't help, I have cleaned with a disk cleaner, dusted, everything I can think of but no luck.
It has been suggested that I restore my computer to it's orginal configuration, that seems a little drastic to me. I am going to just install a new drive and if it works great, if not, then I will do the restore.
Anyone have any other suggestions ?