When the PC boots up, the CD-ROM and DVD drives are not present. Going into the Device Manager displays the error icon for both devices. In trying to reinstall the driver, it displays a Code 39, and when the devices are removed (uninstalled), the system rebooted, the system detects the drives, attempts to install something, yet when they go back in the Device Manager, the Code 39 is still present.
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
Since this involves the CD-ROM/DVD drives, the driver cannot be reloaded from the XP CD.
Short of wiping everything out and reinstalling XP again, is there a solution? A virus-scan and defrag did not report any issues.