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Old 03-19-2007, 02:00 PM
lil
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cd drive shows in explorer that does not exist

windows explore shws a CD rom (drive e) that does not exist,
in Vista Ultimate
however its not in device manager or in disk management,
anybody no how to get rid of it
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Re: cd drive shows in explorer that does not exist

Hi,

Any chance you installed some CD software that included a virtual CD
function?

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> windows explore shws a CD rom (drive e) that does not exist,
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Old 03-19-2007, 03:30 PM
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Re: cd drive shows in explorer that does not exist


yea i use alcohol for 1 virtual drive (y)
never any others, turning it off only removes the y drive as it shoud
be...

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>Any chance you installed some CD software that included a virtual CD
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Old 03-19-2007, 06:45 PM
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Re: cd drive shows in explorer that does not exist

i had an older version of powertoys (1.2) that most features worked,
including removeng the drive from explorer, commond prompt here and
add/remove programs...so I'm good to go for know...thanks

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>yea i use alcohol for 1 virtual drive (y)
>never any others, turning it off only removes the y drive as it shoud
>be...
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>On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:55:42 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
>wrote:
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>>Any chance you installed some CD software that included a virtual CD
>>function?[/color][/color]
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