After changing disc drive letter iTunes no longer recognizes Cd's

I changed my disc drive letter from G to A, & now iTunes no longer recognizes Cd's but when I change it back to G, iTunes recognizes Cd's again.
I've done a full reinstall of all apple software components but still won't recognize disc drive set to drive letter A even after reinstalling iTunes with drive set to letter A.
I've looked at all the help documents & nothing relates to this particular scenario.

I've done a full reinstall of all apple software components but still won't recognize disc drive set to drive letter A even after reinstalling iTunes with drive set to letter A.
Traditionally, in Windows, the A drive letter has been reserved as one of the two floppy drive letters (It's actually the letter reserved for the boot floppy ... which is why most floppy drives on relatively-modern-machines-that-still-have-a-floppy-drive are B drives, since the C hard drive is usually the boot drive.)
So I'm not surprised you're getting erratic sorts of behavior from a A:\ drive that isn't a floppy. If you need to change your optical drive letter, try perhaps an H or higher letter.

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I connected my 30 gig, 5th gen. iPod to my computer,
and it recognized it. I clicked on 'check for
update', of which there was one, ironically described
as "bug fixes". After the update, my iPod restarted
itself and is now in recovery mode. However, when I
look under 'My Computer', it still recognizes my iPod
by the name I gave it, and all of my photos are still
intact and viewable in this mode. I have tried
changing the drive letter and reinstalling iTunes,
but both my iPod and iTunes are still giving me the
recovery mode message.
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Windows XP Pro
Funny you should say that, and i'm so glad that i looked in here, as i first thought that it was something that i had done wrong, but now i am starting to wonder.
I have a similar problem with the 30gb ipod, i loaded everything ok onto my computer, even got to put some music on my ipod!
the next day i decided to re-arrange some tracks and remove some music that i no longer listen to. at this point I also recieved the update called "bug fixes" and since then the actual ipod says to connect to my computer and use itunes to restore, I have done this, and itunes goes through the process of restoring, says it has finished, and as soon as the ipod icon re-appears, it says that my ipod is in recovery mode and i need to restore.
I have done this now about 20 times, and i have tried various procedures that have been suggested on the web page, which includes removing and re-installing itunes, assign a new drive letter to the ipod, reinstalling the drivers.
I have tried everything that i can find with any relevance, but as i am not an IT technician, i dont want to keep trying things that i don't really understand.
Please help, as I want to listen to my music on this expensive music player, like i should be able to!
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So the problem I was having is that although my Windows XP SP2 machine could see my iPod nano as a drive, whenever I tried to use iPod Updater or iTunes, they could not connect/recognize the device. iTunes would simply not see that I had the device, while the updater would freeze for a good 5 - 10 minutes before giving me the "could not mount ipod" error. I tried everything, selective startup, windows update, made sure that I did indeed have USB 2.0 hardware, made sure that when I connected the ipod that Windows Device Manager said it was a "Standard ENHANCED USB Hub," restarted ipodservice, formatted ipod using windows, and probably a few other things. Still, although Windows could see the ipod just fine, apple's software just could not. I could even copy files to and from the device just fine! If only we didn't need iTunes to copy music. :P
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