CD-ROM keeps installing itself as "devices with removable storage"

[zerocool]

I am going insane....

WindowsXP has my cd-rom drive listed in MyComputer under "Devices with
Removable Storage" which causes the drive to become inaccessible.

This is an internal cd-rom drive. A Philips CDRW4012P to be exact.

I have removed the cd-rom through the device manager, everytime windows
reinstalls it as a removable drive.

I have tried removing the upper and lower filter values from the
registry. No joy.

Anyone else run into this problem?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Devices with Removable Storage are drives like tape drives, floppy drives,
CD drives and DVD drives. The removable part is the media, i.e. the disks,
or tape.

Your CD-ROM drive is just such a drive.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In