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churin
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      03-28-2008
Recently an extra CD Drive as "CD Drive(G" has shown up on the Windows
Explorer. There are two DVD Drives[DVD Drive(X and DVD Drive(Y] and
they are still shown as used to be but I have never added the third one.

Disk Management shows only those two DVD drives and not the CD drive.
How can I get rid of the CD Drive from the Windows Explorer?
 
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~Alex T.~A.K.A. Makaveli213~
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      03-29-2008
Did you install any applications like Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% that use
Virtual Drives?
 
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      03-29-2008
"churin" <> wrote in message
news:#...
> Recently an extra CD Drive as "CD Drive(G" has shown up on the Windows
> Explorer. There are two DVD Drives[DVD Drive(X and DVD Drive(Y] and
> they are still shown as used to be but I have never added the third one.
>
> Disk Management shows only those two DVD drives and not the CD drive.
> How can I get rid of the CD Drive from the Windows Explorer?


Have you inserted a USB drive by any chance? I know my Cruzer 8GB drive
creates a virtual CD drive as well as the thumb drive itself.

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      03-29-2008
I did not install anything as you mentioned.

~Alex T.~A.K.A. Makaveli213~ wrote:
> Did you install any applications like Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% that use
> Virtual Drives?

 
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      03-29-2008
Qu0ll wrote:
> "churin" <> wrote in message
> news:#...
>> Recently an extra CD Drive as "CD Drive(G" has shown up on the
>> Windows Explorer. There are two DVD Drives[DVD Drive(X and DVD
>> Drive(Y] and they are still shown as used to be but I have never
>> added the third one.
>>
>> Disk Management shows only those two DVD drives and not the CD drive.
>> How can I get rid of the CD Drive from the Windows Explorer?

>
> Have you inserted a USB drive by any chance? I know my Cruzer 8GB drive
> creates a virtual CD drive as well as the thumb drive itself.
>


Yes, I did many times in the past but CD drive showed up just recently.
Suppose it a virtual drive, then how can it be removed?
 
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~Alex T.~A.K.A. Makaveli213~
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      03-29-2008
So you did not install any applicaitons that use a Virtual Drive. What about
what Qu0ll said? Did you insert a USB stick?

Do you have MAgicISO or ISOBuster or something like that installed? I know
there are some other apps out there that can mount ISO images as well. I can
not think of tham all off hand.

Have you installed any new software? Drivers?
 
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churin
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      03-29-2008
What is Qu011?
I plugged USB stick many time in the past but the CD drive showed up
just recently.
I installed PowerISO recently and emergence of the CD drive occurred
after that installation but not necessarily immediately thereafter.
If this software created the CD drive how can I remove it?

~Alex T.~A.K.A. Makaveli213~ wrote:
> So you did not install any applicaitons that use a Virtual Drive. What about
> what Qu0ll said? Did you insert a USB stick?
>
> Do you have MAgicISO or ISOBuster or something like that installed? I know
> there are some other apps out there that can mount ISO images as well. I can
> not think of tham all off hand.
>
> Have you installed any new software? Drivers?

 
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      03-29-2008
"churin" <> wrote in message
news:...
> What is Qu011?
> I plugged USB stick many time in the past but the CD drive showed up just
> recently.
> I installed PowerISO recently and emergence of the CD drive occurred after
> that installation but not necessarily immediately thereafter.
> If this software created the CD drive how can I remove it?
>


Read the PowerISO documentation or help file.

Lang

> ~Alex T.~A.K.A. Makaveli213~ wrote:
>> So you did not install any applicaitons that use a Virtual Drive. What
>> about what Qu0ll said? Did you insert a USB stick? Do you have MAgicISO
>> or ISOBuster or something like that installed? I know there are some
>> other apps out there that can mount ISO images as well. I can not think
>> of tham all off hand.
>>
>> Have you installed any new software? Drivers?



 
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churin
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      03-29-2008
The problem has been resolved. I just did not know that the PowerISO has
something to do with it.
I thank you all so very much.

Lang Murphy wrote:
> "churin" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> What is Qu011?
>> I plugged USB stick many time in the past but the CD drive showed up
>> just recently.
>> I installed PowerISO recently and emergence of the CD drive occurred
>> after that installation but not necessarily immediately thereafter.
>> If this software created the CD drive how can I remove it?
>>

>
> Read the PowerISO documentation or help file.
>
> Lang
>
>> ~Alex T.~A.K.A. Makaveli213~ wrote:
>>> So you did not install any applicaitons that use a Virtual Drive.
>>> What about what Qu0ll said? Did you insert a USB stick? Do you have
>>> MAgicISO or ISOBuster or something like that installed? I know there
>>> are some other apps out there that can mount ISO images as well. I
>>> can not think of tham all off hand.
>>>
>>> Have you installed any new software? Drivers?

>
>

 
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