Had to reset PRAM and now DVD player reads 'A valid DVD drive could not be found'

To all the mac geniuses out there boy do I need help.

I am working with a 13 inch Macbook pro 2.26 ghz intel core duo 2. Mac os 10.6.6.

I tried using bootcamp so I could run windows and my mac flipped out and just wouldn't load past grey screen. I therefore reset the PRAM and the macbook loaded fine. I restored my partition to fully mac os. I then tried using parallel to run windows 7. When i tried to put the start up disk in, the dvd drive wouldn't take the disk? When i clicked on dvd player I was presented with this message-

'There was an Intialization error- A valid dvd drive could not be found (-70012).

I used the dvd drive last night so am thinking I have done something to cause this rather than the dvd drive dying.

Also when i go into the 'more info' section on about this mac, the ATA says I have no devices installed and I also have no disc burning facilities.

I NEED HELP as am a film maker and must burn a batch of footage.

Please help guys if you can

All the best

Kyle

tried resetting the SMC?

have you got access to an external dvd drive? cause you could run the Hardware test from the OSX disc, and this would show any errors with the drive.

Hey there and thanks for offering your help!

I have put the mac to sleep, then restarted and then shut down in that order but still nothing.

When I press the eject key(even tho there is nothing in there) it does not recognize the button?

No I do not have an external dvd drive, I have dvd players in tvs around my house. Could i try one of these?

Update-

Ive now tried SMC and booting in safe mode but still nothing?

Does anyone have any answers?

sounds like a hardware problem. to verify this you need to do the Hardware test, you might have to see if you can borrow one (the Apple store might let you borrow one of theirs, if you are lucky.)

Oh right. So if it is a hardware issue what would that mean?

Also It seems weird that using bootcamp and resetting the pram would do this?

if it was a hardware problem, it would mean that most likely the drive was defective. the test should throw out some kind of indication as to whats wrong.

can you see the drive in disk utility, is it greyed out, or is it just not in the list?

I see.

The DVD drive is not in the list atall in disk utility....is tht bad?

yep. it could be faulty, or the connection has become loose.

Looks like il b hitting the apple store tomoz. Thank you for all ur advice.

Upped ur rep.

thanks alot, hope you get it sorted, and post back here with the results