Okay I've done alot of things to try and fix this problem I have, hopefully it will be coherent. I’ve sometimes had my Pioneer drive (D:\) show up in My Computer and next time my computer restarts it’s missing. I don’t always notice when it’s missing since I didn’t use my CD/DVD drive very much. It comes and goes…But I had a consistent Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device (E:\) which wouldn’t do anything. Found out to get my CD/DVD drive back I could go to the device manager and uninstall the Generic drive. This would sometimes work but the Generic drive would always be there when the Pioneer drive was there… I finally figured out that the Generic drive was a virtual drive there because I had Daemon Tools on my computer. Oh and when my Pioneer drive would disappear the Generic drive would still show up as (E:\) the letter ‘D’ of the alphabet of my drives would just be gone… I uninstalled Daemon Tools and did the suggestion regedit and removing the upper and lower filters. Microsoft Support Website This fixed my problem but it left my Pioneer Drive renamed as (I:\). (Had other things taking up the F:\, G:\, H:\ spaces) Restarted the computer and it didn’t move from I:\ and when I plugged in my external hard drive it when into E:\ for some reason. (External drive was going into my I:\ position *Important because I had set up my iTunes folder there) So went into the Administrator Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management and changed my Pioneer drive to (D:\) like it had been and I figured I could change my iTunes location folder. It had an error message when starting that program basically saying that my registry changed and I need to reinstall iTunes. (Think I changed the iTunes location folder to the external drive after iTunes started up, restarted iTunes to see if that fixed the problem and it still had the same error message) Sooooooo…Reinstall iTunes (strange thing though it already had my account information and location of iTunes folder as being the external drive—somehow it kept that data…) Think I tried uninstalling iTunes and quicktime again and reinstalling them and it still kept the data, but my Pioneer Drive was showing up. Was able to add a CD to my library, but noticed when I had the music cd (professional not a burned copy) in and looked in my computer it was showing used space: 0 bytes and free space: 0 bytes. When I double clicked it the tracks were there. Also I noticed when I usually put a cd in the drive it has the suggestions of what you want to do with the cd (open it with a program or do nothing) nothing popped up…. So that was starting to bother me. So I tried the trick of going to the Device Manager and finding my Pioneer drive and uninstalling it. To see if that would give it a kick start…now I’ve restarted my computer and it’s not there. Looked at the regedit and it had the lowerfilters there so I deleted that. Restarted computer and checked iTunes and that was having the same error message as before. So uninstalled iTunes restarted computer, Pioneer Drive is still missing. I’m shutting down my computer for the night after I post this message…and will start looking at the problem again tomorrow. Trying not to pull out my hair… I hope everything I said made sense. Oh and I’m using Windows XP, have a Sony Laptop and have downloaded and installed all their drivers (their last posted driver for my computer was done in 12/07/2007)
