Help with a Problem...

[tomato]

So everything has been running fine... until today. Nothing major, but annoying none-the-less....

I have a Pioneer DVD-RW (drive E:) and Lite-On CD-RW (drive F:) connected via IDE cables. In Windows Explorer, this afternoon, all of a sudden, a NEW G: Drive (DVD Drive) appearing and my E: drive has become a "CD Drive"!? The CD-RW drive reads/writes fine. When I put DVD media into the DVD-RW drive, my new E: drive reads the data fine.

The NEW G: drive is acting like the former DVD-RW drive, asking me to "insert media" when I click on it but never registers reading any data... When I try and burn data onto a DVD media, the writes fails because it can't find the target (which is usually the E: drive)

So, I go into the Device Manager and under "DVD/CD-ROM drives" I see a new entry "VH7111K HJR832U SCSI Cdrom Device"... which is odd, as I don't have any SCSI devices installed! If I uninstall/disable this device and then reboot, the NEW drive disappears, but my E: drive still reads as a "CD Drive" and I can't burn anything...

I've also tried "System Restore" and the extra drive remains after the restore!

I haven't opened up the Device Manager in quite some time, but under "Other Devices" a "Mass Storage Controller" has also popped up as well as an "Unknown device"? I would usually associate these with a USB device of some sort, except there are NO external or new things connected... could these be related somehow? If anyone has any suggestions, I am listening ;)

NOTE: scanned for adware/spyware/anti-virus = nothing found. System stable, no oddities, no new installs/uninstalls... :?

Right before I noticed the change, I used the CD-RW drive to erase a CD-RW media... but that may or may not have anything to do with it... I just happened to notice the change a little while after having erased the media.

[Das Capitolin]

Have you recently installed any software that uses virtual device drives, such as Alcohol 120% or Daemon tools?

[GIBSON]

Have you recently installed any software that uses virtual device drives, such as Alcohol 120% or Daemon tools?
That's indeed one of the only things I can think of causing this as well

[DragonMaster]

Or some cable got half-disconnected.

[werty316]

Sounds like a virtual drive but its weird a new drive just shows up.

[tomato]

Nope, no Alcohol or Daemon Tools here :? I do have Daemon Tools installed, but I never running... And I reconnected the dvd drive IDE & power cables as well... (although I can't really get at the IDE connection to the mobo without some messing around, I'm really tight for space :P)

Also, when the DVD-RW drive is empty, I click on the E: and get "E: is not accessible. Incorrect Function."

When I click on my G: drive, I get "Please insert disk into drive G:" ...I'll try uninstalling Daemon Tools I guess and see what happens :?

[werty316]

Try uninstalling Daemon Tools to see is this phantom drives still appears. I think when Daemon Tools is installed the virtual drive is present but you need Daemon Tools active/open to enable it.

I use Alcohol as once you install it you don't need it active/open to use its virtual drive.

[Das Capitolin]

DAEMON tools is notorious for causing virtual device problems. I am betting this is your culprit. Make sure that the service gets stopped before you uninstall, or it will still be there.

[darkorb]

for daemon tools, make sure u unmount all drives, and set drives to 0

[Xero (1)ne]

i had the same problem when i clocked too high w/o pci/agp lock and my sata was considered a completely different scsi device, i would say that if the daemon tools removing doesnt fix it, then try reinstalling your mobo drivers..if not it could be a mobo or bad cable

always check your cables kids!:roll:

[tomato]

Well, it turns out it was Daemon Tools after all :? I uninstalled the program and voila! problem solved! Although I did it was weird, as I had it installed for quite some time with no previous issues?! Anyway, thanks for the advice everyone ;) :)

[werty316]

I never tried the newest v4 DaemonTools but the older version was good but I use Alcohol 120%; you can get a free version of Alcohol 52% which is like Alcohol 120% but without the burning capabilities.


Alcohol 52% free version: http://www.free-downloads.net/programs/Alcohol_52__Free_Edition