I have written a small application to accurately detect the iPod drive. I know many programmers have resorted to just looking for the itunesdb on each drive. This method may be subverted if someone has a backup of their entire iPod on a different drive.

This app written in vb6 uses WMI to detect a drive made by apple, it then get's the drive letter for this drive and verifies the itunesdb resides upon it.

Why would you want to help me? Because if you do I will make the code freely available in vb6 and .net to anyone who wants to use it.

Requirements:
WMI is installed by default on all ME, 2000, XP and 2003 windows machines. If you are using 95, 98 or NT you will need to verify WMI is installed before using.
The VB 6 runtime is also required. The VB 6 runtime is installed by default on all 2000, XP and 2003 (and possibly ME) windows machines. If you are using 95, 98, NT or ME you should verify the vb6 runtime is installed before using.

The downloads can be found here:
WMI
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=afe41f46-e213-4cbf-9c5b-fbf236e0e875&languageid=f49e8428-7071-4979-8a67-3cffcb0c2524&displaylang=en

VB6 runtime
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60pro/Redist/sp5/WIN98Me/EN-US/vbrun60sp5.exe

Caveats:
Theoretically this app should not cause any damage to any system. It does not attempt to write any files, copy any data or manage any hardware. With that said I have run this successfully on several machines without a hiccup, but I cannot be responsible if it causes any errors.

Download it:
http://www.ericneff.com/iPodUtilities/iPodLocator.zip (5 kb)

or
http://www.ericneff.com/iPodUtilities/iPodLocator.exe (24kb)

Please let me know how this works for you. I have included error handling in the app and the error will be presented in a text box for easy copying so you can reply it back to me.

Thanks in advance for reading this, and extra thanks if you can help me out.