CD-Rom has become a 'Removable Disk'

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Patrick

Haveing accidentally rebooted with a bootdisk.com 98se disk in the
floppy-drive, while it was counting down on options, I done C+A+D.
Back in XP-HE, my CD-Rom drive has become 'Removable Disk (E:), and is
unusable.
It seems to think that it is a HD.

I have done a redetect in BIOS, I have done 'System Restore' to 4/3/04
(System Checkpoint).

Can anybody please advise how to delete the drive so that it might redetect
properly, or any other ideas with regards to problem.

a: OK floppy-drive
b:
c: OK ntfs 60GB Primary-Master
d: OK CDWR Primary-Slave
e: ??? CD-Rom Secondary-Master, thinks it's a 'Removeable
Disk'
f: OK 2.5GB FAT32 Secondary-Slave
 
Patrick said:
Haveing accidentally rebooted with a bootdisk.com 98se disk in the
floppy-drive, while it was counting down on options, I done C+A+D.
Back in XP-HE, my CD-Rom drive has become 'Removable Disk (E:), and is
unusable.
It seems to think that it is a HD.

I have done a redetect in BIOS, I have done 'System Restore' to 4/3/04
(System Checkpoint).

Can anybody please advise how to delete the drive so that it might
redetect properly, or any other ideas with regards to problem.

a: OK floppy-drive
b:
c: OK ntfs 60GB Primary-Master
d: OK CDWR Primary-Slave
e: ??? CD-Rom Secondary-Master, thinks it's a
'Removeable Disk'
f: OK 2.5GB FAT32 Secondary-Slave
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Why do you think your computer thinks it's a hard drive?
 
Sorry to have troubled you folks, and thanks anyways
It's corrected itself by my turning machine off, then on (rather than
'Restart')
 
Joseph said:
Why do you think your computer thinks it's a hard drive?
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Thanks for your interest, it has (as said in my reply to my post) corrected
itself (turned off for 1/2 minute).

As of question, it said 'Not Formatted' (on an MS-CD).
 
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