It's not doing anything except making noise like it wants to turn. And I can't clean the lens because it's internal. This is one of those drives that you shove the disc into, not one that the mechanism pops out of the laptop.  I am going to go out and get an external tomorrow (I keep saying that, don't I?), and hopefully I won't have any issues getting the drivers and everything for it. I do have internet, obviously, so if I can't get the drivers off a disc I am hoping I can still download them.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.