No longer a drive letter for my iPhone 3GS

My iPhone used to come up as a drive letter on my Windows XP computer and I would like to get this feature back so I can drag and drop photos and videos from the camera to my computer as I used to.
I followed the FAQ but it does not show up in Scanners and Cameras wizard thing as instructed. I also tried the FAQ for stopping and starting the Apple service but that did not do anything for me.
Please let me know what I can do to fix this.
Thank you!

Hi, Yes I have a lot of such photos, and I woudl rather not delete them.
I solved this by instead using a program called IphoneBrowser to download the photos.
I hope others find this information useful.
-Bob

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