Vista freezing and random usless DVD drive appearing?

[Guest]

Greetings, i've had Vista ultimate 32-bit now for a few weeks and its been
going great. This last weekend I installed Daemon tools and ever since my
system has been freezing up completely, and I'm having to power off to get
the damn thing to do anything. Since this happened the first time my working
DVD drive vanished! and I was left with the virtual drive E: (my dvd drive
having been d: I thought it must be Daemon tools, so I there fore
uninstalled it as i thought it might be the virtual drive. But no! The
virtual drive E: vanished then leaving me with an unknown DVD drive F:?????
Now after swapping the around the dvd drive wiring inside the cpu, it has
once more returned! But I'm still left with this F: drive. I managed to
uninstall this useless drive and everything was fine, until later on the cpu
froze AGAIN! I powered off, re-booted and shock horror The f: drive is back!
along with my working D: DVD drive!

I am still getting random crashes and mainly freezing of my system. Can
anybody shed any light? I'm pretty sure its the DVD drive and Daemon Tools
causing it (Even though its uninstalled). I did also notice when I was
searching for hardware changes when I lost the DVD drive the first time,that
it froze the system up as well. This other drive f: appears as LITE-ON then
a load of numbers & letters and it says its a cdrom drive.

My system is as follows:

Processor: intel core duo E6600
Motherboard: nforce 680i sli
Memory: 2GB corsair twinX XMS2
Graphics card: 768mb Gainward 8800GTX
Hard Drive: 250 Gb Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm,
16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
1.44Mb Sony Black Floppy Disk Drive OEM
Bog standard DVD drive (make escapes me! but nothing fancy)
LN18713 - DVD writer - £20.20(x2 because its so much better having 2)
Windows vista ultimate 32-bit


Thank you

 

[Guest]

As always, you should make sure that you have got a working system restore
point before you run any test or installatiºn.

Use the System Restore utility in Windows to reset the OS to a time and date
point prior to the installatiºn.

I hope this post is helpful.

Let us know how it works ºut.
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[Guest]

Thats another strange thing, the restore only went back to the 26/8/07 and
not to the 25/8/07 when it was installed (unless i'm missing something). Do
you think a registry cleaner or anti virus software may sort my mess out?

 

[John Barnes]

Did you choose the show all restore points or just see the first screen with
the latest restore point.

 

[Guest]

I'm pretty sure I showed all the restore points (there were plenty of them).
I will take another look tonight when I get in from work!

 

[John Barnes]

It would be unusual to have that many restore points in 2 days, especially
taking up the 15% of the drive so older ones would be deleted.

 

[Guest]

It had a restore point for all the updates and software I installed. I'm
probably doing something wrong. As I said i'll give it another bash tonight.

Thanks