Mystery Drive!?

[rhconley]

All of a sudden and for no apparent reason, I have
a 'mystery' CDROM/DVD drive on my computer. Physically, I
have a CD burner (Drive F) and a DVD-ROM drive (Drive G)
installed. However, Win XP now recognizes another DVD-ROM
drive (Drive I) that doesn't exist on my system. I tried
uinstalling Drive I in Device Manager, but upon reboot it
returns. Again, I have no physical Drive I. This
happened right out of the blue!

This isn't hurting my system, but I'd like to know why
this happened and how to delete the drive. I tried
deleting a hardware key in the Registry, but that, too,
returned upon rebooting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Ray Taylor]

Do other people use this computer??? If so then someone may have installed
whats called a virtual drive application. This program is designed to map
iso files from the hard drive to a cdrom so yo do not require the original
disc. This software is most common for travelling notebook users who do not
want to carry around cdroms. Instead they use this program to copy the disc
to the hard drive and use it from there.

An example of one of virtual drive software is Nero Image drive (comes with
Nero Burning Rom) and Farstone's Virtual Drive.

You could ask this person if they are using the software and if not, then
they can remove it. Otherwise the software uses very little resources.


Ray Taylor




"rhconley" > wrote in message
...
> All of a sudden and for no apparent reason, I have
> a 'mystery' CDROM/DVD drive on my computer. Physically, I
> have a CD burner (Drive F) and a DVD-ROM drive (Drive G)
> installed. However, Win XP now recognizes another DVD-ROM
> drive (Drive I) that doesn't exist on my system. I tried
> uinstalling Drive I in Device Manager, but upon reboot it
> returns. Again, I have no physical Drive I. This
> happened right out of the blue!
>
> This isn't hurting my system, but I'd like to know why
> this happened and how to delete the drive. I tried
> deleting a hardware key in the Registry, but that, too,
> returned upon rebooting.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[rhconley]

Thanks for the reply, Ray. My kids use the computer and
we use Nero to burn CDs. I don't know why they would, but
it's possible that one of the kids messed around with Nero
Image Drive (which I've never used). I'll check out the
Nero website for an answer, but can I disable the virtual
drive?
>-----Original Message-----
>Do other people use this computer??? If so then someone
may have installed
>whats called a virtual drive application. This program is
designed to map
>iso files from the hard drive to a cdrom so yo do not
require the original
>disc. This software is most common for travelling
notebook users who do not
>want to carry around cdroms. Instead they use this
program to copy the disc
>to the hard drive and use it from there.
>
>An example of one of virtual drive software is Nero Image
drive (comes with
>Nero Burning Rom) and Farstone's Virtual Drive.
>
>You could ask this person if they are using the software
and if not, then
>they can remove it. Otherwise the software uses very
little resources.
>
>
>Ray Taylor

>
>
>
>"rhconley" > wrote in message
...
>> All of a sudden and for no apparent reason, I have
>> a 'mystery' CDROM/DVD drive on my computer.
Physically, I
>> have a CD burner (Drive F) and a DVD-ROM drive (Drive G)
>> installed. However, Win XP now recognizes another DVD-
ROM
>> drive (Drive I) that doesn't exist on my system. I
tried
>> uinstalling Drive I in Device Manager, but upon reboot
it
>> returns. Again, I have no physical Drive I. This
>> happened right out of the blue!
>>
>> This isn't hurting my system, but I'd like to know why
>> this happened and how to delete the drive. I tried
>> deleting a hardware key in the Registry, but that, too,
>> returned upon rebooting.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
>
>.
>

[Jim Budler]

You have three choices.

1. Open the Nero Imagedrive Control Panel and deselect the
checkbox for "Enable Drive."

2. Go to C:\Program Files\ahead\Nero\Misc and run
NeroImageDriveInst.exe (that's how you got it in the first
place) and select the removal option.

3. Open the Add or Remove Programs control panel and
remove Ahead Imagedrive.

Jim

>-----Original Message-----
>Thanks for the reply, Ray. My kids use the computer and
>we use Nero to burn CDs. I don't know why they would,
but
>it's possible that one of the kids messed around with
Nero
>Image Drive (which I've never used). I'll check out the
>Nero website for an answer, but can I disable the virtual
>drive?
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Do other people use this computer??? If so then someone
>may have installed
>>whats called a virtual drive application. This program
is
>designed to map
>>iso files from the hard drive to a cdrom so yo do not
>require the original
>>disc. This software is most common for travelling
>notebook users who do not
>>want to carry around cdroms. Instead they use this
>program to copy the disc
>>to the hard drive and use it from there.
>>
>>An example of one of virtual drive software is Nero
Image
>drive (comes with
>>Nero Burning Rom) and Farstone's Virtual Drive.
>>
>>You could ask this person if they are using the software
>and if not, then
>>they can remove it. Otherwise the software uses very
>little resources.
>>
>>
>>Ray Taylor

>>
>>
>>
>>"rhconley" > wrote in message
...
>>> All of a sudden and for no apparent reason, I have
>>> a 'mystery' CDROM/DVD drive on my computer.
>Physically, I
>>> have a CD burner (Drive F) and a DVD-ROM drive (Drive
G)
>>> installed. However, Win XP now recognizes another DVD-
>ROM
>>> drive (Drive I) that doesn't exist on my system. I
>tried
>>> uinstalling Drive I in Device Manager, but upon reboot
>it
>>> returns. Again, I have no physical Drive I. This
>>> happened right out of the blue!
>>>
>>> This isn't hurting my system, but I'd like to know why
>>> this happened and how to delete the drive. I tried
>>> deleting a hardware key in the Registry, but that, too,
>>> returned upon rebooting.
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>

[rhconley]

I had installed an evaluation copy of Alcohol 120% (a CD
burning package) and by default it created a virtual Drive
I CDROM drive. I disabled it within Alcohol and all is
back to normal. Thanks for pointing me in the right
direction.
>-----Original Message-----
>Thanks for the reply, Ray. My kids use the computer and
>we use Nero to burn CDs. I don't know why they would,
but
>it's possible that one of the kids messed around with
Nero
>Image Drive (which I've never used). I'll check out the
>Nero website for an answer, but can I disable the virtual
>drive?
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Do other people use this computer??? If so then someone
>may have installed
>>whats called a virtual drive application. This program
is
>designed to map
>>iso files from the hard drive to a cdrom so yo do not
>require the original
>>disc. This software is most common for travelling
>notebook users who do not
>>want to carry around cdroms. Instead they use this
>program to copy the disc
>>to the hard drive and use it from there.
>>
>>An example of one of virtual drive software is Nero
Image
>drive (comes with
>>Nero Burning Rom) and Farstone's Virtual Drive.
>>
>>You could ask this person if they are using the software
>and if not, then
>>they can remove it. Otherwise the software uses very
>little resources.
>>
>>
>>Ray Taylor

>>
>>
>>
>>"rhconley" > wrote in message
...
>>> All of a sudden and for no apparent reason, I have
>>> a 'mystery' CDROM/DVD drive on my computer.
>Physically, I
>>> have a CD burner (Drive F) and a DVD-ROM drive (Drive
G)
>>> installed. However, Win XP now recognizes another DVD-
>ROM
>>> drive (Drive I) that doesn't exist on my system. I
>tried
>>> uinstalling Drive I in Device Manager, but upon reboot
>it
>>> returns. Again, I have no physical Drive I. This
>>> happened right out of the blue!
>>>
>>> This isn't hurting my system, but I'd like to know why
>>> this happened and how to delete the drive. I tried
>>> deleting a hardware key in the Registry, but that, too,
>>> returned upon rebooting.
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>

[johnf]

They didn't by any chance install CloneCD (for burning copyrighted CDs)?
That also creates a Virtual Drive.

johnf

> Thanks for the reply, Ray. My kids use the computer and
> we use Nero to burn CDs. I don't know why they would, but
> it's possible that one of the kids messed around with Nero
> Image Drive (which I've never used). I'll check out the
> Nero website for an answer, but can I disable the virtual
> drive?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Do other people use this computer??? If so then someone may have
>> installed whats called a virtual drive application. This program is
>> designed to map iso files from the hard drive to a cdrom so yo do
>> not require the original disc. This software is most common for
>> travelling notebook users who do not want to carry around cdroms.
>> Instead they use this program to copy the disc to the hard drive and
>> use it from there.
>>
>> An example of one of virtual drive software is Nero Image drive
>> (comes with Nero Burning Rom) and Farstone's Virtual Drive.
>>
>> You could ask this person if they are using the software and if not,
>> then they can remove it. Otherwise the software uses very little
>> resources.
>>
>>
>> Ray Taylor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "rhconley" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> All of a sudden and for no apparent reason, I have
>>> a 'mystery' CDROM/DVD drive on my computer.
> Physically, I
>>> have a CD burner (Drive F) and a DVD-ROM drive (Drive G)
>>> installed. However, Win XP now recognizes another DVD- ROM
>>> drive (Drive I) that doesn't exist on my system. I tried
>>> uinstalling Drive I in Device Manager, but upon reboot it
>>> returns. Again, I have no physical Drive I. This
>>> happened right out of the blue!
>>>
>>> This isn't hurting my system, but I'd like to know why
>>> this happened and how to delete the drive. I tried
>>> deleting a hardware key in the Registry, but that, too,
>>> returned upon rebooting.
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>>
>>
>> .