Trouble reading from CD-ROM drive, but not DVD RW

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Has anyone ever seen or heard of this?

I had an NEC DVD RW and a CD-ROM RW drive installed on my WIn XP SP2
system. I find the DVD RW can Read & write DVD's but cannot read CD's.
Furthermore, my CR-ROM RW cannot read or write (or even recognize the
existance of a CD in the drive). The DVD unit also does not recognize
the existance of a CD in it's drive. I trie dto isolate just one
drive out of the system but this does not seem to make a difference. I
have also tried to load XP with minimum configuration options to see if
this would help. I found that the only way I can read a CD is if I am
in safe mode but once Win XP loads, CD-ROM capability is GONE! I keep
running into stumbling blocks everytime I try to recover this (e.g. I
tried to reload XP with my SP1 disk but it will not allow it since i
have upgraded (via the web) to SP2. It's tough to reload from a CD-ROM
that cannot be recognized! BTW - I have tried many different CD's so
it is not the condition of the CD's themselves.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

.

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