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Uninstalling iTunes Causes CD/DVD-ROM Drive to Stop Being Recognized in Windows

I uninstalled iTunes today in favor of Songbird. When I uninstalled it however, my DVD+RW drive stopped being recognized by Windows Vista. It was unlikely to be a hardware failure (dead drive), because my virtual CloneCD drive stopped working as well.

The exact error Windows Device Manager was reporting was:

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

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