Installed iTunes, now dvd drive not recognized

Please help!!! I installed iTunes,and now my computer dvd/cd drive doesn't work. The drive doesn't even show up in My Computer. Is this a Vista issue or did I do something wrong?

I don't think it's a Vista issue because the same thing happened to me after I installed iTunes 8.2 on my Windows XP notebook.
In the Device Manager, the error message says, "Windows installed the device manager properly but it cannot find the hardware (code 41)."

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It could be that the drive has a Hardware issue, but try the following.
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