PC randomly stopped recognizing CD/DVD Drive

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I tried booting up my pc (Linux Mint is the only OS it's using right now), it was taking about 2 minutes for it to get out of the boot logo, after finally going into Mint, mint threw an error and threw me to a shell.

Initially it threw code error -16 in ata2, then it said something about restart failed.
After resetting and going into the BIOS I noticed the CD/DVD Drive wasn't in the SATA devices section, after opening the pc and disconnecting it, it finally boot up.
This seems like a weird thing, I hadn't touched the drive at all, I don't even use it that much, could it be faulty?

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I tried booting up my pc (Linux Mint is the only OS it's using right now), it was taking about 2 minutes for it to get out of the boot logo, after finally going into Mint, mint threw an error and threw me to a shell.

Initially it threw code error -16 in ata2, then it said something about restart failed.
After resetting and going into the BIOS I noticed the CD/DVD Drive wasn't in the SATA devices section, after opening the pc and disconnecting it, it finally boot up.
This seems like a weird thing, I hadn't touched the drive at all, I don't even use it that much, could it be faulty?

Older drives used rubber drive belts for the loading tray.
After years these rubber belts are notorious for slippage and disallowing the drive tray to complete
the loading cycle.
Back in the day--when we used optical media we used to replace these loading belts with pony-tail
rubber bands.
With a known readable dvd/cd in the tray try this--
just as the drive door closes give it an extra push.
If that improves loading odds are your loading tray drive belt is stretched.