Hello,

I bought a refurbished IBM NetVista (model 8305MU3) that came with an
actual IDE CdRom (drive D) and a phantom SCSI CdRom configured as
drive E, as can be seen from this System Information summary:

Drive D:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type CD-ROM
Name LITEON CD-ROM LTN486S
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate Not Available
SCSI Target ID 0
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROMLITEON_CD-ROM_LTN486S ...
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys ...


Drive E:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type CD-ROM
Name BYD PAZO52N8TYR SCSI CdRom Device
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate Not Available
SCSI Target ID 0
PNP Device ID SCSI\CDROM&VEN_BYD&PROD_PAZO52N8TYR ...
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys ...

What need I do to make the phantom go away? Everything I've tried
didn't work, e.g., disabling the drive in Administrative Tools ->
Computer Management -> Disk Management. Thanks for any constructive
suggestions!

whitesmith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I bought a refurbished IBM NetVista (model 8305MU3) that came with an
> actual IDE CdRom (drive D) and a phantom SCSI CdRom configured as
> drive E, as can be seen from this System Information summary:

Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/DVD-CDROM Drives/

and delete the culprit?