Andy,

Thanks, but it didn't work. I deleted the E: and G: drives as instructed
and rebooted. However, the G: drive came back.


"Andy" wrote:

> 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.
>
>