Where Did This Drive Come From?

[Kevin_Graham]

I have the following drives installed in my computer:

A: Floppy Drive

C: Hard Drive

D: CD-RW

E: DVD

F: Camera Memory Card Reader

Under XP Home Edition when I click on My Computer I see an additional drive labeled G: CD Drive. When I double click on the icon it says 'Please Insert a Disk Into Drive G:'. Why is this mystery drive showing up?

 

[Arthur Legardo]

Do you have a USB memory card reader connected to your computer?

 

[Kevin_Graham]

Yes. It shows up as my F: drive.

 

[Arthur Legardo]

Yes. It shows up as my F: drive.

Well, there you go!

 

[Christian Behrens]

Well, there you go!

Er, he was asking about a drive G:, which physically doesn't exist

Kevin, I assume putting a disc into your CD-RW or DVD won't do anything? Did you ever do anything with a virtual drive?
-Christian

 

[Kevin P]

If you right click on the G: drive, does Eject show up as an option? If it does, click it and see what opens up. I'll bet it's somehow mapped to either your CD or DVD drives.

KJP

 

[Arthur Legardo]

Oh Lord!

Everyone in reading/participating in this thread, please accept my sincerest apologies, especially Kevin_Graham...I'm very sorry, it was late when I replied to your post.
Now, back to the question at hand. What shows up in your Device Manager? You don't happen to have SCSI CD drives do you?

 

[Kevin_Graham]

Under Device Manager it says Nero Imagedrive SCSI CdRom Device. Huh? Should I remove this through device manager?

 

[DonRoeber]

Kevin,

No, don't remove it under Device Manager. It's installed with Nero, so that you can mount ISO disc images as normal CDs. I find it very useful with my laptop, which doesn't have an internal cd-drom drive. I make an image of a game cd, and then mount it when I want to play that game.

If you want to remove it, remove "ImageDrive (Ahead Software)" from the Add/Remove Programs control panel. You'll still be able to burn CDs with Nero just fine.

 

[Arthur Legardo]

Or, you can download TweakUI from Microsoft and use it to "hide" the drive. It will still be a valid drive, just an unseen one.