CD ROM drive in My Computer shows CD that has been removed

[Guest]

When I insert any type of CD in either of my CD Drives, it will display the
icon for that particular disk, but when it is ejected, the icon does not
disappear. When a new CD is installed, the old CD icon remains. If I
double-click, the icon, the CD ROM drive acts as if the previous CD is still
in the Drive. The new CD does not appear.
I tried changing the cables, and I triple checked my drive jumpers. I also
uninstalled both drivers several times. My motherboard is an ASUS P4R800V
with 512 Meg ram and a P4 2.8 gig processor. I am running XP with SP2

 

[larry]

If your cd drive is CDRW and you have easy cd creator or
nero or some other 3rd party software to make avail drag
and drop to cd, you may need updates for drivers from
your software provider.

or

If this is an external cd drive, it probably came with
driver software on cd or floppy disk. Reload the drivers
for the cd. You may have to get updates from your
external driver manafacturer

 

[Guest]

I do not think that the hardware drivers are the problem, since they were
uninstalled and reinstalled repeatedly. Also, both CD Rewrite and DVD rewrite
drives behave in the same manner, and they are from different manufacturers.
I tried changing the drive letters, and IDE cables too. The Nero INCD drivers
were also removed. Both drives play there respective formats well. It’s just
that I have to reboot my computer in order to get rid of the CD icons from
the previous CDs. The drives do not “dump†Whatever memory that they have of
the previous CDs until the computer reboots

 

[Guest]

I found the solution to my problem:


Re: CD DRIVES WILL NOT "DUMP" LAST CD

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this is quite a common error, I dont know why microsoft dun fix it in their
releases lol

what you need to do is a possible two things:

First, Run this application.

The Microsoft AutoPlay Repair Wizard scans your computer devices to find
defective AutoPlay settings, and attempts to fix those it finds. Download the
Autofix utility from here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/3/2/2326455e-a840-4c61-bc28-3afa1820b240/AutoFix.exe

And second, for your incorrect contents of the CD drive XP problem

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314939
Incorrect Contents Are Displayed in Windows Explorer

If you run the first application, it should fix the autoplay ( CD drive icon
etc.. ) and the second resolution should make sure the CD contents refresh
too.