stew2

OK dont download anything yet, you can do that later if its necessary. Just reboot your laptop just now and then go into the device manager and do as i said above (make sure theres no disks in the drive).

EDIT: i dont see a driver for your HD-DVD drive on the HP driver page. It will be on the CD that came with your laptop. So try what i said above and that should fix the problem but if it doesnt then use the driver off the CD that came with your laptop.