Hi!
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I'm not having a very good day here...

I upgraded the HDD in this machine to a 20.4GB Seagate.
I used the Seagate DiscWizard package, and the upgrade went flawlessly, except that now I have an extra CD-ROM drive called "D:" that IS NOT THERE.
I have two CD drives, a standard CD-ROM, and a CD-writer drive.
The third drive does not exist, and Windows keeps INSISTING that it does...

For the upgrade, the new 20GB drive was set as SLAVE to the MASTER on the PRIMARY IDE port.
After upgrade, you remove the now old master, and plonk the jumper back on the NEW drive as MASTER, tell the BIOS about the new master drive, and re-boot.

Machine boots fine, and everything runs fine - except the one program for which I decided to upgrade the HDD in the first place!!!!

BIOS knows there is only ONE HDD, and it knows that there are TWO CD-drives.
START|CONTROL PANEL|SYSTEM knows that there are two CD-drives, and the ones reported by Control Panel are correct.(IE: Control Panel does not see a 3rd drive...)
But Windows Explorer keeps on telling me I have a third CD-drive.

When you click on this phantom drive, nothing happens.
It reports it as a CD-ROM disc, but does not come up with the usual DEVICE NOT READY message that it does for the other two.

Can anyone PLEASE help with this...

Everything works fine, except MUSICMATCH 6, that I use for all my audio editing and converting.
It freezes when you try to run it...

I think that it is getting annoyed that Win95 says that there is a 3rd drive, but MM, quite rightly, can't find it...

Does anyone here know how I should go about removing this phantom CD-ROM drive from the system???

Thanks!

G.

Something additional:

I restarted in SAFE MODE, and MUSICMATCH works fine in there, but in S/Mode, you can't access any of your CD-drives.
This seems to clearly indicate the conflict that is going on with CD-drives that Windows thinks exist, which in fact don't exist...

There are no duplicate copies of any CD-drive in Control Panel in S/Mode.

G.

I feel your frustration in the post! From my experience at installing 8 or 9 of these setup's lately......the EASIEST, MOST RELIABLE way to set this up is to have the Hard Drive as a Master on Channel One(Primary IDE) along with the STANDARD CD Rom as a slave. Then Put the CD Writer on Channel 2 (Secondary IDE) as a Master. Win SHOULD recognize everything correctly and it will work http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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"As hard as a rock & dumb as a brick"...Windows CEMeNT

Hi!
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Thanks, Randy_Tx.
Your comment is noted.
The CD-Writer is the MASTER on the 2nd IDE channel, and the standard CD-ROM is the SLAVE on the 2nd IDE channel.
This configuaration is because it is generally thought best to make a CD-Writer the master on any given IDE port, due to the fact that the software that controls it is treating it like a hard-drive of sorts...

I now have solved the problem with my CD-drives.

It was an AUTOEXEC.BAT file that was loading a driver for the old CD-ROM drive for use in DOS mode.
This drive has now moved up one letter in the alphabet, and subsequently, the driver file installed it as "D:" before Windows cranked up fully.
Windows then assigned the letter "F:" to the same drive...

CONFLICT HEAVEN!!!!!!
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But all is well now - just reached the end of my brain-power last night.
Thanks for listening.
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G.