Cd-drive not recognised after installing itunes

after I installed itunes, my computer didn't recognise my cd-drive, in properties for the drive it states the following
Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

I have seen several other people with the same issue. The problem seems to be some level of incompatibility between the Gear Software CD/DVD filter driver used by iTunes and some CD/DVD drives under Vista. I too have a Dell with the same problem, but I'm not holding my breath for a fix. The only workaround I know of is to to remove the GearAspiWDM filter driver from the registry. If you do this and reboot, your DVD drive will show up again, and iTunes will work except for burning CDs or DVDs. ITunes will also complain about drivers being installed incorrectly whenever you open it.
Here's the registry key to remove:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE1 0318}\UpperFilters=GearAspiWDM
I'm not sure whether the problem is with Vista, Gear Software, iTunes, or the Dell DVD drive firmware. But, getting all the parties working together to resolve this one will be next to impossible in my opinion.

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CD drive not found after installing Itunes

When I install Itunes on my computer - the computer can not find or open my CD drive at all. If I uninstall and reboot the CD drive shows up and operates. I have tried to reinstall, update drivers, etc with no luck. Any thoughts??

I have seen several other people with the same issue. The problem seems to be some level of incompatibility between the Gear Software CD/DVD filter driver used by iTunes and some CD/DVD drives under Vista. I too have a Dell with the same problem, but I'm not holding my breath for a fix. The only workaround I know of is to to remove the GearAspiWDM filter driver from the registry. If you do this and reboot, your DVD drive will show up again, and iTunes will work except for burning CDs or DVDs. ITunes will also complain about drivers being installed incorrectly whenever you open it.
Here's the registry key to remove:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE1 0318}\UpperFilters=GearAspiWDM
I'm not sure whether the problem is with Vista, Gear Software, iTunes, or the Dell DVD drive firmware. But, getting all the parties working together to resolve this one will be next to impossible in my opinion.

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It's a little hard for me to accept that this is true, but the symptoms seem to be pointing the direction of the title of this thread. I have an all-in-one touch-screen Gateway computer that came with windows 7 (yeah, a win7 machine that came with touch, yeesh) and I put windows 8.1 pro 64-bit on it with a clean install (actually windows 8 was the clean install and then I did the free microsoft store upgrade to 8.1). It has 4GB of RAM and has a Pentium Dual Core cpu @ 2.2 Ghz. It was running fine with the previous version of iTunes, but as soon as I updated to iTunes 11.1.5.5 (and there may have been other apple things that updated too (ie quicktime of course), the computer prompted me for a reboot and froze during the reboot process (before it even shut down). Then it had trouble booting into windows. I ran startup repair to no avail and decided to do a sytem restore. My most recent restore point was from a few weeks back, before iTunes was even installed at all on the machine. I went back to that point and the machine worked fine again. Then I installed iTunes 11.1.5.5 and the same exact problem occurred - it froze while shutting down after the iTunes install and then would not boot into windows 8. I did another system restore and have not put iTunes back on. The system is working fine. I'm going to try to find out if there's a way to download older versions of iTunes, so that I can install it, but the bigger issue here is: Is this a legitimate bug/incompatibility with some hardware or software or driver that I have on this computer? I run a computer support business so I know my way around but I don't have time to troubleshoot this from scratch. Anyone else seeing this? Apple employees...a little help here? Any input?

let it sit for about 30 min and still got nothing
I then did a "hard shutdown(just pressed power button till it turned off the computer)"
That may not have been long enough. But a "hard shutdown" would definitely have been construed as a problem due to the update.
Asus apparently is a known problem case...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2013/10/19/help-after-installing-windows-8-1-the-superspeed-ports-of-my-asus-system-don-t-work.aspx
Link courtesy Darrell Gorter [MSFT] found here
"Windows 8 Keyboard and mouse not working"
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprohardware/thread/06e9b341-0619-4085-acbf-e2f0133ca428?outputAs=rss
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I initially tried updating itunes but it wouldn't so I uninstalled all Apple products in order per another post I found. Then reinstalled all products and itunes worked fine. I then shut down my computer for the night, then next day windows wouldn't launch. I did a system restore prior to the itunes update and windows works fine. I tried reinstalling itunes again and had the same problem. So now I don't have itunes installed. Anyone know how to get itunes to not prevent windows 7 from launching?

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After installing 7.3, none of the iPods in the house (a Mini, a Nano and an iPod Photo) will boot up into iTunes. I have gone through the first four "R"s, but am unable to even attempt the "restore" as it requires that iTunes recognize my iPod.
"1) Make sure you've reinstalled the latest version of iTunes.
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I've upgraded to itunes 7.3 on my Windows Vista desktop and now none of my IPODs are recognized and I'm getting the following message:
"your IPOD needs to be reformatted for use with Windows"
I've double checked and my IPOD shows that it is formatted for windows. And, when I go to try to restore my IPOD, I get an error message saying that it cannot be restored.
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DVD drive not recognised after initial install of software and drivers - Server 2012 R2

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I have a SATA DVDRW drive that isnt being recognised by windows server
It is recognised in bios, and was initially recognised by windows, until installing an AV on the server.
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hi, so you say that the drive will work in another SATA port is there the potential that the SATA port you are currently using has a fault? does it work with any other hardware?
another option is a classic windows fault regarding the corrupt registry filters that would make a CD\DVD drive disappear in explorer, however i am not sure if this problem afflicts sever 2012. you could give it a go to see if it resolves the issue
Press the Windows logo key + R to open the Run dialog box.
Type regedit in the Run dialog box, then press Enter. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type
the password, or click Allow
In the navigation pane, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
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Cd-drive not recognised after installing itunes

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