New Sony FE880E running Vista now DVD-RAM not working

I just bought a new Vaio FE880E on Monday. OS is Windows Vista Home Edition. I've had various problems installing drivers due to companies not having support for Vista yet. My DVD-RAM is a Matshita UJ-850S ATA. It was working fine and then all of a sudden stopped reading discs yesterday. I checked in Device Manager and get a message saying Windows cannot load device driver for this hardware. Driver may be corrupted or missing (Code 39) When I go to more info it says Windows was able to successfully install device driver software, but the driver software encountered a probled when it tried to run. I tried to upgrade driver, but it says the latest driver is already installed. I also tried to uninstall and correct (suggested by Windows help and support), but then it just told me to contact the device manufacturer which I believe is panasonic, but I can't find their info anywhere. Any help resolving this issue would be much appreciated

 

Did you try deleting the ide drivers?

 

Hi! I have bought a Toshiba Satellite a100 812 and I have exactly the same problem. What do you mean by deleting the ide drivers? Should I do that or did I do that already? I'm new to this stuff, please be specific

 

It may or may not help. My own personal experience with Matshita drives is they aren't that great.

 

Ive got the same problem, with the same drive. Has anyone fixed this problem? I really need to know how it fix it!
Ive tried all the diffeent ways of sorting it out, uninstalling and reinstalling the drive, updating the drivers, rolling bak the drivers.. nothing has worked!
Really confused :| :S