Cannot delete or display CDROM drive D: in Dev Mgr or Disk Mgmt

I recently installed a larger hard drive but cannot assing it to D: because
there's a phantom CDROM drive D: in Win Explorer. However, it does not show
up in Dev Manager or in Disk Management so I cannot get rid of the entry.
Therefore my new drive is registering as E: and none of my shortcuts that use
D: are functioning.

How can I get rid of the phantom CDROM drive and free up the drive letter
D:, which the old hard drive used?

Thanks,

Geoff wrote:
I recently installed a larger hard drive but cannot assing it to D: because
there's a phantom CDROM drive D: in Win Explorer. However, it does not show
up in Dev Manager or in Disk Management so I cannot get rid of the entry.
Therefore my new drive is registering as E: and none of my shortcuts that use
D: are functioning.

How can I get rid of the phantom CDROM drive and free up the drive letter
D:, which the old hard drive used?

Thanks,


before you go any further

check the bios

there might be a reference to it there
which should be corrected

Try run,type: cmd In cmd type: DiskPart In DiskPart,type: list disk type:
list volume type: HELP to get all cmds & to uninstall the cdrom that shows

"Geoff" wrote:

I recently installed a larger hard drive but cannot assing it to D: because
there's a phantom CDROM drive D: in Win Explorer. However, it does not show
up in Dev Manager or in Disk Management so I cannot get rid of the entry.
Therefore my new drive is registering as E: and none of my shortcuts that use
D: are functioning.

How can I get rid of the phantom CDROM drive and free up the drive letter
D:, which the old hard drive used?

Thanks,

BIOS is OK. I have two DVD's and they are correctly shown.

"philo" wrote:

Geoff wrote:
I recently installed a larger hard drive but cannot assing it to D: because
there's a phantom CDROM drive D: in Win Explorer. However, it does not show
up in Dev Manager or in Disk Management so I cannot get rid of the entry.
Therefore my new drive is registering as E: and none of my shortcuts that use
D: are functioning.

How can I get rid of the phantom CDROM drive and free up the drive letter
D:, which the old hard drive used?

Thanks,


before you go any further

check the bios

there might be a reference to it there
which should be corrected
.

DISKPART display:
DISKPART list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- ---------
--------
Volume 0 K DVD-ROM 0 B
Volume 1 L DVD-ROM 0 B
Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 274 GB Healthy System
Volume 3 Y RECOVERY NTFS Partition 10 GB Healthy
Volume 4 Z DellAMD64 C NTFS Partition 288 GB Healthy
Volume 5 J Removeable 0 B

No D: drive shows up there. But in Win Explorer, I still see "CD Drive
(D" right under the C-drive. How do I kill this entry so I get D: back?

Thanks,

"Andrew E." wrote:

Try run,type: cmd In cmd type: DiskPart In DiskPart,type: list disk type:
list volume type: HELP to get all cmds & to uninstall the cdrom that shows

"Geoff" wrote:

I recently installed a larger hard drive but cannot assing it to D: because
there's a phantom CDROM drive D: in Win Explorer. However, it does not show
up in Dev Manager or in Disk Management so I cannot get rid of the entry.
Therefore my new drive is registering as E: and none of my shortcuts that use
D: are functioning.

How can I get rid of the phantom CDROM drive and free up the drive letter
D:, which the old hard drive used?

Thanks,