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Old 03-21-2007, 09:30 PM
Andy
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Re: DVD-RW Drive Shows up as DVD-RW and CD-Drive in Windows Explorer

Run regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices,
and delete the entries for E: and G:.
Reboot.

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:00:21 -0700, STLCardsFan
<STLCardsFan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a weird situation going on with my DVD-RW drive. I have a Sony
>DRU-710A DVD-RW drive installed on my machine with no other optical drives
>installed. For the last couple of weeks, the drive has been showing up twice
>in Windows Explorer with two different drive letters. It shows up as drive
>as a DVD-RW (Drive E:) and as a CD-ROM (Drive G:).
>
>I have made sure that I am running the latest firmware version of the drive
>and I have not made any changes to the system or installed any new software.
>Sony's support could not provide any useful information.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this issue? I am running
>Windows XP Home with SP2 installed.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Old 03-21-2007, 09:30 PM