mistakenly disabled drivers

[farubino]

Hi. I've been having some problems with my computer being slow, so I mistakenly disabled the Apple iPod driver (it was under "disk drives" since it is recognized as a removable drive). Now when I connect it (when it should usually mount the iPod as a drive) nothing happens. The dock is still getting power from the firewire (the iPod can charge).

In device manager, I can't find the device so I couldn't enable it again. I have tried to "add new hardware," but it cannot be found by Win XP. Reinstallation of the drivers/iTunes from the CD that came with it also does not fix this.

Thank you in advance,
Fred Rubino

 

[HermDogg]

Have you run an app such as Driver Cleaner first? That, and then re-installing/hooking up the iPod again should fix it. The other thing you could check is right-click any drive, properties>hardware tab, and see if its listed, although usually this requires it to be visible in device manager.