Dell Inspiron 8500 just doesn't recognize the drive anymore

When i go into the device manager, the drive has a little exclamation point next to it....when i click it i get this message "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)"

The drive is installed and i know it works

recommendations on how to fix this??

3/10/2009 2:01:05 PM

did you try removing it and putting it back in?

3/10/2009 2:09:29 PM

haha, yes i did that a few times

3/10/2009 2:43:42 PM

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hardware+but+cannot+find+the+hardware+device.+(Code+41)

3/10/2009 5:11:24 PM

fixed that problem pretty fast, but now the drive won't recognize blank CD's

google's not being too helpful with this one...

3/11/2009 2:15:33 AM