Weird CD Drive Problem

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I've had the strangest problem recently. I re-installed XP Home, all
went smoothly. I added each new app that I needed one at a time,
testing them to make sure they worked. Again, all went smoothly. Most
of this I installed from CD. The last thing to go on my computer was
going to be Nero. I had just done a bunch of online downloads and
installs (iTunes, Cygwin, JDK, Eclipse, & OpenOffice) and disabled some
of the services I always disabled (indexing, error reporting and a few
others) so it was time to put in the Nero disc.

I had disabled autorun for VMWare player, so I didn't expect the
installer to pop up, but opened "My Computer". There were no CD drives
there. I checked the "Device Manager" it recognizes both of my DVD
Drives and has the appropriate driver but a yellow ! by each one. I
grabbed the drivers off the net and reinstalled them. No difference.
I tried updating the drivers, removing the devices and adding them
again, all to no avail. One is an external Lite-On DVD burner (USB &
Firewire, I tried them both) and the other is an internal QSI
DVD-Rom/CD-RW.

I am really stumped. I'd rather not re-install Windows again just for
this, so if the good people here have any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks

Sean
 
There was no error message. A yellow exclamation mark, but I couldn't
get it to tell me what was wrong. I am quite sure the drivers
installed are right. In any case I did solve the problem.

I had uninstalled the device from the hardware
manager a number of times, but never from the registry. Not sure why
it had a different result, but it did. I went to:
/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/{4d36e965-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}

I removed REG_MULTI_SZ data type UpperFilters, and REG_MULTI_SZ data
type lowerFilters wasn't there. I rebooted and Windows picked up both
my devices.

Someone suggested that it was a conflict with virtual drive. That the
virtual drive software was insisting on using the first letter after
the letters of the hard drive partitions. I can't be sure this was
the case, since it was suggested after it got fixed, but it very well
could have been.

Thanks!
 
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