Life is Good!! Oh, wait......... no, it isnt.

[General Mortars]

Hi, folks, I have a surprise to share with you:

I just bought myself a NEW DVD driver!
WHOO-HOO!

I opened WinXP this morning to start working and , bang!, on the window of "my computer" where I usually have 2 I have 3, count them, 3 DVD drives, an "e", a "f" and a "g".

I don´t remember going out and buying this DVD drive.
I don´t remember even opening the case and installing it, but it´s right there.
Either the computer has been promenading itself when I´m asleep or I have a bug in my system.

I´m presently divided between "really worried" and "Oh-my-god! I´ve got a Bug! worried", but I´d like your medical opinion first on which should I lean toward:

How worried should I be?

[Craig Tucker]

You don't have any virtual drives mouned do you that you may have forgotten about (daemon tools etc). What happens if you click on the icon for the drive.

[General Mortars]

I don´t think I have any virtual drives, this is a relativelly brand new machine and I haven´t had time to tweak inside the hood yet.
When I click this new "G" drive, a window pops up asking me to insert a disk in it.... which of course I can´t since this drive doesn´t exist.

With all the virus worries these last few days, even though I don´t open attachments ever, it started to worry me.

[Roderz]

I've seen this prob b4 on HP machines at work - but clicking on any of the drive letter would show the contents ok

I remember reading something about this on the MS Knowledge Base
sorry can't remember what the fix was

[General Mortars]

Thanks, I think i´ve solved it.

I went to device manager and deleted it.

Now I´m not sure whether I made a HUGE mistake because the drive´s name, turns out, was Nero Imagesomething-something.


Nero happens to be the program I use for my CD/DVD burning needs, so chances are I may have wrecked something there, while teaking under the hood.

Time will tell..........

[mujahid7ia]

Nero has it's own virtual drive, you should probably go to Nero ImageDrive settings and disable it from there, even if you already deleted it.

[cjb1118]

I have one of those for my InstantCD software.

Whenever you use an ISO as a normal CD, it pretends it's in that drive.