Dvd on Pavilion zv6000 won't play

I have a computer problem that maybe you can help me with.
I went to watch a DVD on the laptop and the following message comes
up... Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but
cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)
I try to manually open the movie and it tells me to open My Computer and
click on CD Rom Icon, but guess what, there is no CD Rom icon.
Please tell me what this means...
I have removed the Optical drive and reseated it with no positive results.
Does the drive need replaced or what's going on....
Thanks for any advise

Did you just recently uninstall some disc burning software?
Try this fix:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461
or this one:
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en-us
post back an let us know if this fixes your problem.
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