Hard Drive is reading as a cd drive

[firstmateirongut]

A few hours ago, my computer froze in the proccess of downloading something
to my 36gig slave drive. i thusly shut it down. when i restarted it, my drive
was gone and i had a new **cd drive**

i need some help to turn it back into a cd drive, even if it does mean i
lose all of the information on it. (although if there is a solution that
means i can keep my data, then that would be really nice.)

Thanks

 

[Malke]

A few hours ago, my computer froze in the proccess of downloading
something to my 36gig slave drive. i thusly shut it down. when i restarted
it, my drive was gone and i had a new **cd drive**

i need some help to turn it back into a cd drive, even if it does mean i
lose all of the information on it. (although if there is a solution that
means i can keep my data, then that would be really nice.)

Thanks

Wrong icons appear for drives - per MVP Ramesh, delete the file named
autorun.inf from the drive's root folder, and then reboot. You may need to
right-click on the drive icon and choose "Open" rather than
double-clicking.

If that doesn't help, either boot with a Linux Live CD to get the data off
the slave drive or put the slave drive into another working computer
(either by temporarily slaving it or by putting it into a USB drive
enclosure). Once the data is off the drive, format it.

At the target computer, before you reattach the slave drive remove it from
Device Manager and then shut down. Attach the drive and restart so Windows
can find it and enumerate it properly.

Malke

 

[firstmateirongut]

so, ok i can't even open the hard drive, because my computer is quite
insistent that it is a cd drive, no matter how i open it, it asks for a
cd.... so there is no way to even format it.. tried using DOS, but to no avail

 

[Malke]

so, ok i can't even open the hard drive, because my computer is quite
insistent that it is a cd drive, no matter how i open it, it asks for a
cd.... so there is no way to even format it.. tried using DOS, but to no
avail

Then as I already said:

DOS cannot see NTFS-formatted drives.

Malke