Sata DVD, Sata HDD and Pata DVD

[Wish I was diving]

My Sata DVD drive suddenly stopped responding. The control light is
permanently on but the drive can't be opened (neither on the drive itself nor
via driveletter rightclick - eject). No DVD is in the drive.
Before this problem started I noticed that during boot my Sata HDD is only
listed as '1: ' (not as it used to be when I still had IDE where the drive
was listed by it's number, like ST xxxxxxx), listed as '2: ' was the Pioneer
DVR 112 (Pata) but the Asus DVD RW was not listed at all. It did exist in
Device Manager though and worked OK until an hour ago.
Are there things to consider with this configuration that I may not have
considered (being completely new to the wonderful world of SATA - and PATA
for that matter)?

System Info: Windows XP Pro SP2, Intel DX38BT, Intel Core2 2,66 - 1333, DDR
3 - 1333 1GB, nVidia GeForce 6800 XT, motherboard own sound (IDT), HDD 80 GB
in 2 partitions with approx. 60 % free on each of them.

 

[sgopus]

Sounds like the drive failed.

 

[Wish I was diving]

It sure does. The question is to what extent. May it be recovered or can I
feed it to the dog? Is there anything I can try (I did disconnect the drive,
re-connected on a different Sata plug - still same symptoms though)?