Weird Problem, Can Anyone Shed Light On How To Correct

[golfnut]

I have a Pioneer DVD Rom (D Drive), and a Plex 708 Writer (E Drive). All of a sudden I have a "generic DVD Drive showing up under Drive F and another DVD Drive, generic, showing up as Drive G. Where did these come from, I haven't a clue, how do I get rid of the icons which appear when I click the "My Computer" icon. I went to "Device Manager" and disabled/deleted them and the icons disappeared but every time I reboot my computer the icons reappear. Can anyone help with why this would happen and how I can permanently delete these icons? Thank you very much.

[SLK001]

Can anyone help with why this would happen and how I can permanently delete these icons? Thank you very much.

FORMAT C: ?

(Or, perhaps you could tell us what software you have on your system. Any disk imaging junk?)

[golfnut]

slk001, thank you for the reply. I have the following disk imagining software, if I am interpreting your question correctly.

Norton Ghost
Nero
AnyDVD
CloneDVD
Easy CD/DVD Creator 6 (Basic Ver.)

Your comment "Format C?", what does this mean. My hard drive is my C Drive if thats what you are asking or are you saying I should reformat Drive C, if so can I do that without a new Windows install, if so could you tell me how. Thank you again for your help.

[reboot]

He didn't mean disk burning...he meant something like Daemon tools.
The reference to "format C", is a joke

Update the chipset drivers for the motherboard.

[Ripper2860]

Nero does have a "virtual drive" component (Nero ImageDrive) that is typically installed. With it installed, all DVD and CD drives show up twice -- once as the physical drives and once as the virtual drives.

Ex: 1 CD-R (D:) and one DVD (E:) would show-up as D:, E:, F:, G:

The other programs may have an equivalent, as well.

[RabidDog]

This is almost certainly to do with clonedvd and maybe nero as well. Yes they sound like two "imagedrives" you need to idasble them in the appropriate software.

[golfnut]

reboot thank you for the advice, could you possibly tell me how to update my chipsets, I have no clue. Thank you.

[SLK001]

Yes, "FORMAT C: " was a joke (you obviously don't remember the old DOS days!).

If I had to guess, I would say that Norton GHOST is creating "ghost" images of your drives. Maybe there is a setting to tell it to not ghost drives with removeable media.

[golfnut]

slk001 thank you, is there a way to check for this in ghost and remove the icons? Again thank you for your patience and advice.

[SLK001]

Can't help you with the program settings. I don't trust any software program to make any decisions like this for me. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), they lack the basic intelligence to make anything more than mundane decisions.

[golfnut]

slkoo1 thank you anyway, I will just try uninstalling ghost and see what happens.

[golfnut]

Thanks everyone for your replies and advice, I think this is just one problem I will have to live with until I decide to reinstall a fresh Windows OS. Thanks.