DVD RW drive not detected on laptop

[Xinn]

Went to my dads the other day and tried installing something on him laptop. When the disk didn't autorun i went to My Computer and discovered it wasn't detecting the drive. I checked the device manager and it isn't there either. Anybody any ideas??

Thanks

 

[Xinn]

I think it shows up in the bios yeah, although im not 100% because its the most retarded bios ive every seen and cant seem to get it to do anything at all.