Basically the extra drive is taking up the drive letter E: and i use that letter for my external hard drive and run programs from it. So the programs i use need the drive to be E: and i dont know haow to get rid of the extra cdrom drive.
I only have the one piece installed and dont have any other attachments to the computer.
It has come out of nowhere.
I tried going to disk management but it dosent show up there and when i select my external hard drive to change the letter to E: it dosent come up on the list so this unknown drive is using the e: space. It is registered in 'my computer though'
Please help!!!!
thanks
2007-03-05 05:29:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Sometimes when you attach an external hard drive, it will attempt to take the letter D: If that happs, your CD drive will be bumped back to E: Apparently that happened and WIndows is now not releasing that letter, even though the drive is not really there.
Try physically disconnecting the CD and booting the PC. That should clear any letters associated with the drive and hopefully free up the e: drive.
Shut down, reattache the CD drive and reboot. Hopefully the E: drive will now be available for your external drive.
2007-03-05 05:38:35 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be able to go to the hardware properties and disable the drive. Once you do that, it won't show up anymore.
Chuck
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2007-03-05 13:34:13 · answer #2 · answered by Dakota 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
then there is some kind of drive registered with letter E:/ maybe a floppy drive?
2007-03-05 13:32:28 · answer #3 · answered by jwalker343 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Physically remove it from the PC!
2007-03-05 13:31:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋