Vista doesn't recognize d drive, I tunes reformats

My Vista loaded laptop was not recognizing the d drive, Microsoft had me enter the register and delete the upper and lower filters, which fixed that problem, however it caused Itunes to be unable to burn a disc, Itunes suggested re downloading Itunes, which re installed the upper filter, and now Vista doesn't recognize the d drive again, anyway out of this loop?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c01059852&cc=us&lc=en &dlc=en&dlc=en&lang=en
see if this link works and try it...i dont know if you have HP or not but it's worth trying...let me know...

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