Weird issue with DVD drive in XP Home

XP Home SP3 - in the screen shot attached below, you can see what's going on . . . the DVDRW drive is coming up as an MMC/SD reader (drive E in the red square). It will not read DVDs, it read a CD once or twice but now doesn't even do that. I swapped out the drive, that made no difference. I removed it from the Device Manager and rebooted; again, no dice. I tried the reg 'hack' at this link and that did nothing. I removed the drive (physically unplugged it from the data cable) and rebooted w/o it being connected, then powered down, reconnected it and booted up - still the same thing. If I hook up a USB DVD drive, it works fine, but comes up as a Compact Flash (drive F in the green box in the screen shot below). But the USB drive reads both CDs and DVDs. I re-installed the chipset drivers, and still no normality with these drives..... any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, links, whatever will be greatly appreciated!
THANKS!

 

Well, I just finished a full repair install, the DVD drive reads CDs now, but still doesn't even recognize a DVD when inserted.... and Internet Explorer is kind of screwed up now too. :banghead I think I may just back up the owner's docs, pics, etc and format then reload a clean OS.....

 

:confused Wow. No replies? Strange.

Anyway - I ended up replacing the DVDRW with a new SATA DVDRW drive (the original one was an IDE/ATA drive) and the new SATA drive works as it should: it reads and writes and recognizes DVDs, CDs, CDRWs, DVD-DL, etc. It still shows up in My Computer as an MMC/SD device, but at least it works. I know the original IDE/ATA DVDRW drive is NOT faulty 'cuz I installed it in a different PC, and it worked perfectly. Just one of those strange PC things.... if anyone can figure out a way to get the drive to appear in My Computer as a CD/DVD drive instead of an MMC/SD device, PLEASE post!!!
Thanks!

 

Both optical drives (the new SATA DVDRW and an IDE/ATA DVDROM that was already installed) are still coming up as erroneous entries . . . screen shot attached . . . they work, but it's driving me nuts!
:banghead

 

Thanks for the suggestion!! It had crossed my mind, but I thought "Nahhh . . . too easy, won't work". But I tried it, and it FIXED IT!!!! THANKS PLODR!!!!

Screen shot attached below!!!!

:celebrate :dood