CD Drive is active but doesn't detect discs

Hello,
I'm working on my Thinkpad T41 with Windows XP Prof. SP3 (actual updates) since some years and it worked fine.
Now the CD / DVD drive doesn't read any discs. Neither inside of Windows, nor at startup.
- the drive is shown in the Windows XP device list
- the Windows XP driver is installed without any errors
- and it has a drive letter
- the LED flashes, when I close the cd-drive case
It seems, that the cd drive it doesn't really start rotating fastly when I close the case. But if a cd drive realizes a disc inside, it starts rotating fastly.
If I want to open the disc in the explorer it says that there's no cd inserted.
It is a MAT**bleep**A UJDA765.
First I tried to build the cd-drive in another Laptop - a newer Lenovo. And it worked fine there.
So I thought there're some driver problems and I put the drive back in my T41.
I tried some of my Backups (which I made with a bootable CD at a time when the drive worked fine). These are backups of the whole C:\-partition. So everthing must be in there. I had to use a bootable USB-Stick to start the backup programm. After recovery of several backups, the cd drive still wasn't working.
Then I reinstalled the whole system. The problem didn't changed.
Then - finally - I found something: I was searching a bit in the BIOS menu and the other IBM Utils on startup besides the recovery option. There I find the PC doctor 4.0. I wasn't able to test the drive directly ("There is no cd/dvd in this drive . . .blabla"), BUT in the "system summary" I found under "CD-Drive Version" (can't remember correct term) the value: "No CD driver installed". o_O
Yes. Sure. The drive is shown in Windows, but my BIOS hasn't installed the driver. Does that make sense?
So the only idea I had, was to update the BIOS, although I wasn't able to understand how I could destroy some BIOS driver stuff. After the update everything worked fine . . . . everything, but the cd drive. Same problem.
I just have 1 idea, why the problem occured, but now it doesn't make much sense either: A virus was found in one of my driver files in C:\DRIVERS . . .*somewhere*. Can't remember when I deleted it (some day, I realized that Avira AntiVir doesn't delete or move infected files automatically, so I scaned the system and deleted the found files).
This is my only idea. But note: the backups I tried out had 100% virus free data.
Maybe I had some troubles with Daemon Tools too, but I can't imagine that this could be the reason.
Now I have no more ideas. I don't know if IBM has some special way to handle their drivers.
I really hope someone can help me out.

Hello,
Microsoft has a Fix it (a small troubleshooting program) which solves several common problems with Windows not recognizing a DVD/CD disc drive:
Your CD or DVD drive can't read or write media
Perhaps running that will solve the problem.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
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