Ghost cd rom drive appeared

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I have a very strange problem, I have some how gained a second cdrom in my
computer connected to a A347scsi scsi controller in device manager, xp has
installed the drivers for these and says they are working properly. The
thing is they are not fitted, I only have one dvdram (lg gsa-4163b) and no
scsi controller. I have removed these from device manager but windows puts
them back, so I have disabled them for the time being, what can be causing
this and how do I stop it?

XP2800 barton
Abit VA20 Mainboard VIA400a
1gig ddr400 memory
 
mavy wrote:

" what can be causing this and how do I stop it? "


CD-writing software could be causing it. When you write a CD from a
disk image file, it needs to mount it onto a *ghost* drive, and then it
writes the disk as if it were copying it directly from another optical
drive.
 
CD-writing software could be causing it. When you write a CD from a
disk image file, it needs to mount it onto a *ghost* drive, and then it
writes the disk as if it were copying it directly from another optical
drive.
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OK thanks I have used nero and Alcohol 120% so should I enable the drive
again and ignor it ?
 
mavy said:
OK thanks I have used nero and Alcohol 120% so should I enable the drive
again and ignor it ?
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Alcohol does it, they call it 'Virtual Drive". I use it to play games
without finding the CD.
 
mavy said:
I have a very strange problem, I have some how gained a second cdrom in my
computer connected to a A347scsi scsi controller in device manager, xp has
installed the drivers for these and says they are working properly. The
thing is they are not fitted, I only have one dvdram (lg gsa-4163b) and no
scsi controller. I have removed these from device manager but windows puts
them back, so I have disabled them for the time being, what can be causing
this and how do I stop it?
Click to expand...

Sounds like you have some sort of CD-rom emulating software installed. Ex:
alcohol or daemon tools.
 
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