How to get rid of Mystery Drive?

[Martin ©¿©¬ somewhere]

Hi
I seem to have picked up a mystery cd-rom drive somehow
I have A - floppy, C & D both hard drives, E & F both DVD writers, G
an external USB HDD, then there's the mystery drive H which shows up
in properties as being full with 614,400 bytes but it doesn't show in
properties>hardware

H has 4 directories, Two with .vcd PowerISO files in them
One with .dat Video CD Movie and the fourth empty
The most annoying thing is that it loads it's explorer screen at
boot-up which I have to close to continue.

I can't load or delete these directories\files
[CANNOT DELETE ENTRIES, files on the cd-rom drive read read only]

This has been happening for several weeks now, so I'm unable to recall
what I did or did not do to cause this to happen

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this annoyance please?
Using WINXP

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

Hi,
Let's address the Win Explorer screen at bootup:
Use 2 tools to look at the programs set to auto-load:

Silentrunners from http://www.silentrunners.org

Autoruns (checks & shows what's set to auto-load at Windows startup)
http://www.sysinternals.com/nt­w2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml

Run each one, and review the results.

Is the H drive supposed to be a local drive, or is it a share on your network ?

Did you use My Computer (or Win Explorer > My Computer) to look at H drive? did it list the Type of drive?

 

[NewScience]

Is it a Flash Drive or a Memory Stick drive?

 

[Martin ©¿©¬ somewhere]

Hi,
Let's address the Win Explorer screen at bootup:
Use 2 tools to look at the programs set to auto-load:
Silentrunners from http://www.silentrunners.org
Autoruns (checks & shows what's set to auto-load at Windows startup)
http://www.sysinternals.com/nt­w2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml
Run each one, and review the results.

Hi Maurice, thanks for your reply
I have run both Silent runners & Autoruns, though I'm not sure what I
should be doing with them?
Anyway, H didn't load at boot up today, so something happened

Is the H drive supposed to be a local drive, or is it a share on your network ?

Like I said, H is a ghost drive and shouldn't be there at all

Did you use My Computer (or Win Explorer > My Computer) to look at H drive? did it list the Type of drive?

No, I use PowerDesk Pro6 and H shows up in properties as being full
with 614,400 bytes but it doesn't show in properties>hardware

 

[Martin ©¿©¬ somewhere]

Is it a Flash Drive or a Memory Stick drive?

Neither, It shouldn't be there
My memory stick shows up fine when I plug it in

 

[NewScience]

DId you then try Windows Explorer and see if it shows there? If not,
contact PowerDesk contacts.

 

[Martin ©¿©¬ somewhere]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:55:12 GMT, Martin ©¿©¬

Hi Maurice, thanks for your reply
I have run both Silent runners & Autoruns, though I'm not sure what I
should be doing with them?
Anyway, H didn't load at boot up today, so something happened

Oh, Oh, it's back again

 

[NewScience]

And the answer to my post? Windows Explorer show it?

 

[Martin ©¿©¬ somewhere]

And the answer to my post? Windows Explorer show it?

Yes, Explorer shows it

 

[NewScience]

Does the H Drive show up in:

Administrative Tools | Computer Management, Disk Management?

Have you mapped any Drive letters to network paths?
Do you have any startup programs that create a pseudo-drive in order to run?

 

[Martin ©¿©¬ somewhere]

Does the H Drive show up in:
Administrative Tools | Computer Management, Disk Management? No
Have you mapped any Drive letters to network paths? No
Do you have any startup programs that create a pseudo-drive in order to run?

No

 

[NewScience]

When you right-click on the entry 'H', under Properties, does it say Type:
Local Drive, File System: NTFS?

 

[Martin ©¿©¬ somewhere]

When you right-click on the entry 'H', under Properties, does it say Type:
Local Drive, File System: NTFS?

No,
General properties: VIDEOCD
Type: CD Drive
File System: CDFS

 

[Martin ©¿©¬ somewhere]

Thanks for all the replies
Found the answer
It was C:\Program Files\PowerISO\PWRISOVM.EXE.
There was an uninstall.exe, fired it up and after a re-boot, the
mystery drive was gone