Floppy, CD & Zip Drives Not Working with XP Home

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All of my drives (except hard drive) will not work correctly. Floppies, Zip
and CD all show in my computer, all show as working correctly in device
manager. Each drive gets power and will start up but the media will not
list. I know Windows sees the drives and will even let me eject disks. One
is an external floppy on USB and Windows want left me access it either, even
though it shows as working.

When I boot to Safe Mode all drives work! What gives with this? I've seen
other posts about this problem but have yet to find a cure. Is it possible
that one of the Hotfix automatic updates screwed this up? If so which one so
I can uninstall it.

Frustrated!!