I am currently running Windows XP and I am having some issues. Neither one of my CD-Roms work anymore, including the one that came with the computer. I had installed a new CD-Rom over year ago, and everything was fine. About 2 months ago, I turned on my computer and both of the CD-Roms wouldn’t work. So I uninstalled them and reinstalled them and they still didn’t work. So I decided to by an external CD-Rom and that one doesn’t work either, but it does on a similar computer. I get the same error message on my computer for all of them:
“Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)”.
Obviously it found it, or it wouldn’t know to load the driver. I have checked all of the cables, and made sure that everything is plugged in.

Take a look at this see if it helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314060