I INSTALLED ROXIO CD CREATOR
SINCE i HAVE DONE THIS i APPEAR TO HAVE ANOTHER DRIVE LETTER

QUESTION HOW DO i GET RID OF IT
DO I REALLY NEED IT


RABT

Please don't use CAPS o.k.?

Can you let us know which drive letters are
listed and what you have for IDE devices?

Thank You.


RD.

IDE?? izzit means hardware?? i not sure, pls explain

kueijie: Do some Reading (http://www.pcguide.com/topic.html) Scroll down to the Hard Drive section...

Sorry About the caps. I have been off line for a while thanks for the reply.

System : Amd k6/2 512 ram

CD-R/RW 7083A


A:= Floppy
C:= Hard drive 6.03gb
D:= Hard Drive 6.56gb
E:=
F:= Cdrom disc

Rabt

Do you have a CD-RW (CD burner) in addition to your regular CD-ROM. If so both will have their own drive letters.

If not, when you click (double click) on E: what happens (listing of a directory, drive not ready message, what)?

If you put a CD in your CD-ROM is it accessible on the E: or on F:drive letters?

If you right click on E: and click on properties what does it say (local disk, cd-rom, etc)?

I have A CD-RW ONLY
When I double click E: I get the message (E: is not accessible the device is not ready
I run cd's from the f: drive
when I right click on E: properties it reads used =0 free = 0 capcity =0


thanks again

Rabt

I'm not a big fan of CD Creator - seems like there is always some problem or conflict - you might want to try Nero to burn your CD's

You might be able to remove the extra drive letter through control panel/system/device manager. E: sounds like a CD-ROM so list the CD-roms first and see if there is an extra drive listed - then remove it.

Or it might be listed under disk drives.

It also could be some kind of virtual CD created by Roxio, and maybe if you get rid of CD Creator it will go away.

Otherwise, you could just live with it if it's not causing any problems. It's probably not worth reformatting and reinstalling Windows.

Hello rabt

Go into "BIOS Setup>Standard CMOS Setup>Hard Disks" and check your drive parameters.

You should have:
Secondary Master : CD-ROM [?] [it may be set to None]
You may [or may not] have a drive specified in this but your [seondary] drive jumper is incorrectly set to "slave".

Primary Master is named C:
Primary Slave is named D:
Secondary Master is named E:
Secondary Slave is named F:

Best to set ALL your drives to "Auto". This means they will be "Dynamically Auto Detected" at every boot and you will see the results of this displayed on screen during the boot process and can check every time that the drives are being correctly detected.
At present the jumper on your CD-RW is set to "slave" which means it will be treated as the F: drive and presumably the PC is "assuming" that since there is a slave there must be a master, hence the E: drive showing up; but since there is no master in place in can tell you nothing about it. Best to change the jumper to "master". That combined with "Auto" detection should see that all is well.

You would need to do this in correct sequence of course.
1. Switch off, go inside the case, change the jumper.
2. Switch on, go into the BIOS Setup, change the settings.
3. Save and Exit Setup.
4. Check that the drives being displayed as detected are correct.
5. Go into Windows Explorer and check that the drives being displayed are correct.

Sylvander,

On one of my computers the primary master hard disk has four partitions: C,D,E,F

The primary slave has two partitions: G,H

The Secondary master is a Cd-Rom and I've set it in windows to be J:

The secondary slave is a CD burner and is drive K: in windows.

I have no drive I:

I also have some virtual CD's drives which use drive letters P: through Z:

And sometimes I map network drives usually using the letters M: and N:


I've also had several computers with C: on primary master and D: (the Cd-rom) as secondary slave - admittedly not the proper way to do it but also not a problem at least in Win98.

2 questions, 1. when you turn on your computer do you see two drives or does the letter drive show up after you put a cd and then eject the cd?
2. Did you install the Directcd?

I have contacted Roxio and they advised me this drive is created by Cd Creator (virtual) so I uninstalled and it has disappeared

Thanks everyone for your replys