DVD/CD drive is not seen by 6460DWU T61 and XP Professional system

Dear friends,
I have laptop 6460-DWU T61 with XP Professional.
I load systematically all new updates which I receive from Lenovo and one day I saw that my computer cannot see my DVD/CD drive. It disappeared from “My Computer”. I do not know when it was happened. Does Lenovo create problems for his users ?
When I load from “Control panel” “Add hardware Wizard” I saw yellow “!” at HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-U10N and after clicking Next I saw message “Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)”.
After I uninstalled the device using “Device Manager”, rebooted my laptop and installed it again. Nothing was changed. Again yellow “!” at HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-U10N and my computer cannot see my DVD/CD drive.
I tried temporary find other solution and connect DVD/CD drive by USB port. And again problem. My computer cannot see the new drive, yellow “!” at HP DVD Writer 557r USB Device and the same message “Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)”.
Great ! What can I do?!
My big request is how can I fix the problem? May I use the bellow solution?
I intend create the fixcd.reg file described by Mr.JohnWill at
http://forums.techguy.org/multimedia/528972-itunes-blocks-cd-rom-recognition.html
However I do not know in which directory set the file for sure.
Can somebody tell me, please?
I appreciate it in advance, thank you.

I'm not entirely sure what the OP's situation is, but this:
"They sold me it without CD to reinstall XP Windows. I do not have CD which I can use to reinstall my Windows. My computer is preinstalled with the MS Windows® XP OS, but is supplied with a MS® Windows Vista® OS. ... The Windows Vista recovery disc set provided with my computer cannot reinstall the Windows XP OS."
would seem to indicate that the machine was purchased with a Vista license and a pre-installed XP downgrade. That's how several machines that I was involved with (mine and friends') arrived.
They were shipped with Lenovo XP images installed - including the recovery partition and tools for XP - and a set of Vista factory media as well.
[edit] Small correction: my T400 had Vista installed and XP media in the box. The other T400 units had XP installed and Vista media in the box.
Z.
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