new CD drive G: appears in explorer

A new CD drive G: is shown in explorer. I don't know where it came from and
I can't delete it. When clicking on it a message windows pops up please
insert a disk in drive G: Windows XP Pro, haven't installed any new
hardware, did install XP SP3.
Herman

Chk my computer,does it show,open device mgr,chk,one can always
R.click on one,properties,see the description of the so-called item..Also,
one can open device mgr,R.click the drives (all one at a time),select
uninstall
w/o restarting after each,once thru,exit,shutdown pc,power off,move youre
IDE devices around the connection(s),start pc.XP will reinstall on restart.

"hvac" wrote:

> A new CD drive G: is shown in explorer. I don't know where it came from and
> I can't delete it. When clicking on it a message windows pops up please
> insert a disk in drive G: Windows XP Pro, haven't installed any new
> hardware, did install XP SP3.
> Herman
>
>
>

drive icon only shows in windows explorer, the two hard drives and two
dvd/cd drives are all that show up in device manager.
"Andrew E." <eckrichco@msn.com> wrote in message
news:B7B7E267-DF02-467A-BB0C-134BAB3ED6F8@microsoft.com...
> Chk my computer,does it show,open device mgr,chk,one can always
> R.click on one,properties,see the description of the so-called item..Also,
> one can open device mgr,R.click the drives (all one at a time),select
> uninstall
> w/o restarting after each,once thru,exit,shutdown pc,power off,move youre
> IDE devices around the connection(s),start pc.XP will reinstall on
> restart.
>
> "hvac" wrote:
>
>> A new CD drive G: is shown in explorer. I don't know where it came from
>> and
>> I can't delete it. When clicking on it a message windows pops up please
>> insert a disk in drive G: Windows XP Pro, haven't installed any new
>> hardware, did install XP SP3.
>> Herman
>>
>>
>>

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:01:31 -0400, "hvac" <noonehere@nowhere.com> wrote:

Open My Computer/ Control Panel/ Administrative Tools/ Computer Management/ Device Manager.

In device manager right click on the removable device for the unused slot,
click on disable (NOT uninstall). That should prevent that slot being
reported as an available disk letter.


>A new CD drive G: is shown in explorer. I don't know where it came from and
>I can't delete it. When clicking on it a message windows pops up please
>insert a disk in drive G: Windows XP Pro, haven't installed any new
>hardware, did install XP SP3.
>Herman
>