Windows XP won't recognize any removable media inserted after boot

[Jeff]

Hello.

I have a strange problem here. I have a 3.5" floppy, a TDK CD/RW, a
Toshiba DVD drive, and an Iomega 250MB zip drive on my Windows XP Home
machine. After bootup, Windows recognizes the contents of any disk that
was in the machine at bootup. However, if I insert a new disk, XP won't
recognize it. I have to reboot to be able to read it.

This machine is a dual-boot XP/Win98 machine. The drives work fine
under Windows 98. They also work fine when I boot XP up in safe mode.

I also used MSCONFIG to boot XP up in diagnostic mode (basic devices
and services only loaded). While the drives worked in Safe mode, they
still exhibit the problem in this MSCONFIG's diagnostic mode.

Other things I've tried:

- using Device Manager to remove all of the drives as well as the
IDE/ATAPI controller. After reboot, XP recognized and installed the
"new" hardware, but the issue persisted.

- using Microsoft's Autoplay Repair Wizard. It didn't detect that
there were even any problems.

System info:

Windows XP Home SP2

CD/RW: TDK CDRW241040B, driver d:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys
(5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), 48.38 KB (49,536 bytes),
8/18/2001 8:00 AM)

DVD: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1202, driver
d:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), 48.38 KB (49,536 bytes), 8/18/2001 8:00 AM)

Any ideas at all would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Jeff]

bump... does anyone have any ideas? I'm really hoping I don't have
to reinstall XP.