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CD Drive shows up as Local Drive

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September 22, 2003 at 20:25:45 Pacific
Specs: me, 128

In My Computer the CD drive shows up as Local Disk D:, if I put a disk in it the properties shows 648 of free space, but the disk has data on it. In Windows Explorer nothing shows up on the disk.

I tried removing it from the device manager (it listed itself as an LG 52X CD Drive) reboot, the BIOS screen shows it a the LG on bootup, but it comes up as Local Drive D: again. I tried a different CD Drive and get the same.
Also in the device manager the Standerd Floppy Disk Controler has a yellow ! how do I find a better driver for this.


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September 23, 2003 at 06:44:36 Pacific

Boot into safe mode & go to device manager...run down the entire list one item at a time & look for duplicate entries (these duplicates do not appear under normal mode). For example...if your floppy drive is listed twice, remove BOTH entries...if it's listed 3 times, remove all 3...reboot & let Windows sort it out...

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September 23, 2003 at 14:42:24 Pacific

hello
try deleteing the problem device from device manager and reboot.

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