DVD/CD drives failed to load

You have the incorrect drivers installed for the CD/DVD drive. Ensure that the drive is compatible with Windows 7 and got to the manufacturers website for the drivers written for Windows 7

You will need to re-install the driver. Right click the device in device manager and select properties. Navigate to the driver section and uninstall all existing drivers. (It may *not* give you the option to do that, depending on how corrupted the driver is, but it should.)
Reboot the PC.
Upon reboot, Windows should find the new device and install generic drivers. It will probably ask you to reboot a second time.

CD/DVD drives usually dont need drivers loading, windows has built in drivers.
Try going into device manager and deleting the drive from there, windows will then re load the drivers.
If it still wont work, it may have failed

you need to see if there are drivers for your cdr drive for windows 7 you have to know what cd drive you have befor you install win 7.

What windows is this?
Who is the maker of the laptop?

• Turn the computer off, remove the DVD drive and restart.
• look for the drive in device manager

Windows xp – Start button>run> type devmgmt.msc
Vista/Windows 7 – start button> in the search box type devmgmt.msc

• Remove or un-install the cd/dvd drive
• turn off the computer
• Put the drive back in
• Restart the computer
• Install your driver or allow the driver to install

If it continues to fail then either replace the drive or look in the component's properties, click the drivers tab and delete these drivers from windows system32 folder. You will need the windows installation disk to restore these drivers.

Your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or not recognized by Windows or other programs, so you cannot play or access a CD or DVD. This issue might have occurred after you installed, uninstalled, or updated a program or Windows Vista.

This issue may have occurred after one of the following situations:

• You upgrade a computer to Windows Vista or install Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
• You install or uninstall CD or DVD recording programs.
• You uninstall Microsoft Digital Image.

You may see one of the following error messages:

• One of the following error messages appears when you view the CD drive or the DVD drive in Device Manager.
  
  Error message 1 The device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device (Code 31). Error message 2 A driver for this device was not required, and has been disabled (Code 32 or Code 31). Error message 3 Your registry might be corrupted. (Code 19)
• An "error code 39" error message.
• A message that resembles the following appears in the notification area: Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)
• you can find this information and more at this site..
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

you need to right click on the device, from the view with the yellow triangle, and update the driver or roll back the driver.
failing that , download driver max and it will find the driver for you.

use filtercheck 4.6 in cdr-zone.com forums to remove upper and lower filters.

use this www.cdr-zone.com/forum/about4719.html&highlight=filtercheck

the 4.6 tool. download it. then run then click yess to all and restart. you havw corrupted upper or lower filter driver

go to control panel, system, hardware, device manager, locate the drive, right click update driver, if fails, try windows update, if that fails google search for make and model and include "driver download"