False Drive Icon in My Computer

I also had this problem a while back. Never found out what was causing it. Check for any possible system conflicts. Have you installed any new software lately? Try uninstalling it and see what happens. If you have Norton Utilities, run WinDoctor to check for errors in the registry. Update your virus definitions and run a full scan just in case. My problem went away after I had wiped my system and reinstalled everything (I didn't do it because of the phantom drive). Have you mapped a network drive? It should come up with a "Host not found" error if you have. That's all the input I have right now.

Hi try this go to safe mode and remove all of the cdroms listed and reboot. I believe tis will end your problem.

Seen this problem before on a users computer... Problem wasnt with windows.. the user installed a DOS level driver acidently which mis-reported the non-existant drives. Make sure you remove all dos level cd-Rom Drivers from your config.sys file and also REM the mscdex.exe from your autoexec.bat file. Windows will use its own internal driver for the only drive and the ghost drive will dissappear.
Hope this is helpful! :-)

I agree, for the most part, with rTron;

Some CD ROM drives (I think they were mitsumi quad speed) used to give phantom drives (usually 4), you can change this with a switch on the mscdex.exe command in your autoexec.bat.

Click Start, then Run,type sysedit look for the autoexec.bat window, if there is a line that is similar to;
mscdex.exe /d:mscd001
then add;
/n:1
to the end.

I wish you success.

Chris

If that CD-ROM dirve is assigned to an existing drive then make sure that there isnt an autorun.ini file in the root of that drive, as this will change the icon of the drive

Some apps use a virtual CDROM to allow remote usage , it does install as an extra CDROM in my computer with a different drive letter and allows you to select and load virtual CD's which exist as files on other servers . This could have been installed by an application that you have installed recently , so now it may not seem so strange ....
I hope this info is of help to you .....

Good Luck !!!!

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