Equium A100-027: CD/DVD drive says driver is missing or corrupted

My cd/dvd drive is not shown anymore in "computer". i have looked in device manager and there is an exclamation mark next to my drive. I have done a full norton scan and everything was clear. On device manager when i open properties for this drive i get an error message.
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.

Hi
Check the both links to other threads here in the forum.
Both describe the same problem and the link suggested above should help:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=20159&messageID=74014
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=18715&messageID=68411

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