CD/DVD Drive Disappeared in Windows XP Guest

[Mathias27]

I have several Windows XP 32 bit guest virtual machines on Windows 8.1 64 host. On more than one of these the CD/DVD has disappeared. No matter what settings are changed under storage in the manager for the cd/dvd drive it doesn't show up. It's like the driver disappeared on the guest. The issue has been there since version 4.3 and I'm not exactly sure when it disappeared. The CD/DVD drive does not show up under the hardware tree in windows or under My Computer as shown in the attached image. It appears to be there from the virtual box side of things but since it isn't in windows I cannot access it. This is a physical internal drive, not USB and I can see it on other Windows XP 32 bit machines I have, as shown in another attached picture. Not knowing exactly how this is virtualized through virtual box my assumption is the driver for Windows got corrupted somehow and needs to get reinstalled??? I was able to install guest additions through an iso mounter and a shared folder in hopes this might correct it but no change.

[Mathias27]

After much messing around i was able to get the CD/DVD drive back after uninstalling the IDE controller. This ticket can be closed.