Floppy, CD ROM, Zip Drive Problems

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I have Windows XP 5.1 (Service Pack 2) installed on a Genuine Intel PC
with 2.5 GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM.

Ever since May of this year, my floppy drive and CD ROM drive will only
work in Safe Mode. In regular mode, I get the message that the floppy
or CD are not formatted (although they are and can be read in Safe Mode
or in regular mode on my other PC). I get the same problem with my
Iomega Zip drive (although it doesn't seem to run in Safe Mode). I
tried to do a system restore but, for some reason, my system restore
points only go back to August. I guess it wasn't setting restore points
before that. There may have been a virus on the computer when the
problem first arose (in May) but we have been cleaning the the computer
with Spybot, AVG and AdAware since then and they have not found
anything lately although I always keep them up to date.

I also tried reistalling the Iomega driver but, while the
reinstallation ran without errors, it had no effect.

I noticed that an earlier poster to this group resolved the problem by
uninstalling !Conflicts in the System Devices section of the Device
Manager. I searched this section and did not find any !Conflicts.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,
Peter.