CD /DVD Drive Not recognised.

Sorry to post this as I'm pretty confident it must have been raised before.
Problem is either I'm not using the "Search" facility properley or its not working.
I typed in "DVD Drive not recognised in Windows" and various other phrases only to get the reply :-
"One or all of your search keywords were below 3 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc, please increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords". What am I doing wrong here, if anything ?

Also any help with the issue would be appreciated.
The DVD Drive in a Windows XP system is not being recognised either in My Computer or Windows Explorer. Device manager reports a driver issue but I seem to recall a regestry edit is able to sort this out. Iv'e tried new cables ( IDE ), positions on the board / cable ( master, slave etc ) but no use. Iv'e even tried a new drive.

I know this is something simple but my heads a fog today.

Waheeey! Found it.. Knew is was a reg hack.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Then SYSTEM

Then CURRENT CONTROL SET

Then CONTROL

Then CLASS

Then find {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

The whole thing looks like this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Then delete the upper and lower filters....

Job done.

Nice work, that's a typical fix that many of us have had to use before .

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982116

Happy computing .

Louis