REQ: Need help to get rid of CD drive in Device Manager

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Device Manager shows a CD drive I don't have on the machine. I had
tried one yesterday that I found in my closet that I thought I might
use as a second drive to aid copying CDs. Even though the BIOS
recognized it, and the tray is openable and closable (power is on),
W98 fails to be able to read a disk in the drive. So I pitched the
drive. So, I figure that's where Device Manager got its info. So I
'removed' it and re booted. Guess what? It came right back. Did this
twice, so it is no fluke. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?


Thanks
 
Device Manager shows a CD drive I don't have on the machine.
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I 'removed' it and re booted. Guess what? It came right back. Did this
twice, so it is no fluke. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?
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You didn't install any DOS drivers for the CD-ROM you tried, did you? Not
that that should cause this problem.
I would try re-booting into safe mode, then clearing out the extra entries
in the Device Manager from there.
 
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