Corrupted Registry

message from =?Utf-8?B?bGF6ZXJiZWFt?= on 11 Jun 2004
My CD-RW/DVD ROM and CD-RW/DVD +/- RW drives have stopped beign recognized. I've tried to re-install these devices but I'm getting an error indication that my registry entries for these drives are corrupted. How can I fix this
 

Archived message: Corrupted Registry (Microsoft WinXP)
 
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