If it makes it any differnt its a laptop, which I dont have much experience with but i think thats still ide?

Well ill try to mount those

yes /mnt/cdrom does exist

I wasnt sure how to make the link exactly

am I actually supposd to enter this?
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 2005-10-24 11:35 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
I thought it was just what yours showed but its in code...

ill check is /dev/cdrom exists and try
Code:
-s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom