Laptop DVDRW busted Help

hi all,

dumb question but I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere with zero entertainment. Have a brand-new laptop, Compaq 3320CA. Was sick in bed and using the dvd player excessively to watch mpeg's & dvd movies on disc.

In the middle of a movie, the picture froze and now the drive refuses to read anything, be it cd's, data discs, movies or anything. Gives me message "No Data on D:"

I have no idea if it's physically broken somehow, or perhaps I need to reinstall? The computer cannot access the Net at present (I am on another computer now), so can't update drivers that way. But drivers should be up-to-date since comp is new, and everything was working fine before. But I can't reload them manually since the drivers are on a cd.

Any advice? Should I uninstall the disc drive in Device Manager and restart, hoping it will recognize and reload properly? or does this look like a busted drive which should be taken for repair (possible, it is under warranty but I am in New Zealand where things are not easily done). any help is appreciated, thank you in advance!

kj