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Old 03-22-2007, 09:30 PM
Doug
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Re: DVD-RW Drive Shows up as DVD-RW and CD-Drive in Windows Explor

Leave it as is. Won't hurt anything. Everything will work
normally.

Doug W.
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"STLCardsFan" <STLCardsFan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> 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.

>>
>>


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Old 03-22-2007, 09:30 PM