Alcohol 120% Virtual Drive Overwriting CD/DVDRom Help!

I installed Alcohol 120% and created a virtual drive. Then, I noticed my CD/DVDRom refused to respond upon putting a cd in. I quickly uninstalled Alcohol 120% (doh?) and proceeded to try to remove my Upperfilters and Lowerfilters in the registry recommended by Microsoft. Upon inspection, I did not see any Upperfilters, but I deleted the Lowers and rebooted and nothing was solved.

During this entire time my CD/DVDRom was missing from Device Manager and My Computer.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix my problem? ANY help will be appreciated, thanks!

Note: I also did install XP SP2 today if that matters.

 

In Device Manager, (under the view tab) have you clicked

View devices by connection
&
Show hidden devices

Other than that, you could turn off the computer, unplug the CD drive, restart the computer, then turn it off, reconnect it and start the computer again, then see it it gets recognised.

 

That didn't solve anything. I think the problem is more of Alcohol 120% somehow overwriting or corrupting my cdvdrom's drivers, or the registry. Any other ideas would be appreciated, thank you.

 

Might try reading this, and see if it helps any. http://forum.alcohol-soft.com/index.php?showtopic=24493.

 

Nope. I tried installing the drivers for my cd/dvdrom. It's a Samsung SH-S202G, and SH-S202G_SB00.exe gives the error message "This Firmware is not compatible with the selected drive. Contact your system manufacturer for information on firmware updates available for this drive."

I'm so frustrated.