I've recently bought a second hand computer off a friend of mine, which has been working fine up until today. The D Drive does not appear in the My Computer folder, and device manager complains it's faulty, with a code 10 error.

Code 10 apparently means that they don't actually know whats wrong.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drive repeatedly, both manually, and allowing the CD drive to install on boot, neither have achieved more than another code 10. BIOS doesnt have a auto detect drive option for me for some reason, and the only drive update is user created, and requires credit card details.

The driver is an LG HL-DT ST DVD

The fine folk here in DAL have a reputation for know how, so I was hoping I one of you could impair some wisdom into what I should be trying to do now.

One of these may help:
1. Uninstall the drive through Device Manager.
Restart computer. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.
or...
2. Your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programs
Restart computer.
or...
3. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on cdgone.zip to unzip it.
Right click on cdgone.reg, click Merge.
Accept registry merge.
Restart computer.
or...
4. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstall. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.

broni, you are a lifesaver. The reg fix worked perfectly - thank you.

Very good