How to get rid of Mystery Drive?

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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
 
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?
 
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.
Click to expand...

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 ?
Click to expand...

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?
Click to expand...

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

Oh, Oh, it's back again
 
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?
 
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?
Click to expand...
No
 
When you right-click on the entry 'H', under Properties, does it say Type:
Local Drive, File System: NTFS?
 
When you right-click on the entry 'H', under Properties, does it say Type:
Local Drive, File System: NTFS?
Click to expand...

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