My Comp shows 3 DVD drives with only 1 installed

[Rkrebs]

I am having a problem. I installed a DVD from an older system that I dismantled into my new computer. I have a DVD+-RW installed and everything works fine. After I installed the DVD Rom drive from my old system, My Computer shows 3 DVD drives and 1 DVD-RW. I cannot remove it from the Device manager. When I do, it just comes back after the reboot.

The drives are listed and a Lite-on, Generic, and Toshiba.

Not sure what to do. When I remove the drive from the computer, it gets rid of 2 of the 3. NOW I cannot get the last one out of My Computer.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


Rkrebs

 

[micker377]

What OS? The cures are different.

 

[Rkrebs]

Windows XP Pro.......Sorry

 

[micker377]

Device manager/view/show hidden devices. Delete ALL CD-DVD drives shown. Reboot and Windows will install the ones you do have.

 

[Rkrebs]

That seems to be the problem here. I do that, and after I reboot, they all come back. I took all the DVD drives out and now there still seems to be one in the device manager. I put the original DVD RW back in and windows recognizes it fine. But there is still an extra DVD in the Device manager as well as My Computer that is not installed in the computer.

 

[micker377]

In device manager, what "properties" does it show for the DVD drives? Check against the drive you do have installed. You may be fighting a non-problem where the device mangler is showing the model number of the drive (rebranded), and the real model number of the original manufacturer.

 

[micker377]

Forgot to ask, is it working OK?

 

[Rkrebs]

Well the DVD-RW drive works great. The Phantom drive obviously doesn't work at all.

The Phantom device is a Generic DVDROM SCSI CdRom Device. Not sure why it is SCSI.

 

[cdogg]

I've had this problem before. The Generic DVD-ROM SCSI device is actually a virtual drive created by an application. The most common one is Alcohol 120%.

I believe there is a setting that you can disable to turn off the virtual drive, but uninstalling the application should definitely get rid of it.

~cdogg
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