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DVD/CD ROM Disabled after iTunes install

After installing iTunes the DVD/CD drive is disabled. I deselected "Use iTunes for default player", but the DVD/CD drive was still disabled. Is there a way to reenable the DVD/CD drive after installing iTunes?

Thanks,
Akai

Dell Vostro 1500, Windows Vista

Posted on Mar 6, 2009 11:53 AM

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May 10, 2009 9:35 PM in response to akai34711

Hoping to see if anyone else was able to rectify this problem.

I've been having a hard time over the last few months with my CD/DVD Drives. My DVD burner would show a disk inserted but everything would be blank, my CD-R would always tell me to insert a disk even though it recognized a disk was inserted. Last night I finally decided that maybe it was the lens, so I took everything apart and set everything back up, but again nothing worked.

Now I go to start up Itunes and it tells me some of my drivers are missing (I created a NoCDBurn reg yesterday but deleted it before) but to my amazement both my drives now worked. I updated Itunes to fix the driver problem, restarted my PC and again the drives broke, but once I started up Itunes they loaded up fine.

So it seems there is a file associated with Itunes that takes precedent over the drives. Since I have a month old new Ipod I'm going to give a call to tech support tomorrow since its clearly Itunes screwing with the PC, but wondered if they are no help if anyone here has found a fix.

DVD/CD ROM Disabled after iTunes install

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