Too Many Image Drives!

[CrankyCarrot]

A while back I must have been experimenting with some image mounting software other than Daemon Tools, because now I have 2 image drives I cannot remove with that software.

I usually use Daemon Tools and 1 out of 3 of my image drives is controlled with that program, but then there's these 2 other ones I don't know how to get rid of. Doing a little PC spring cleaning and would love to remove the superfluous drives.

Does anyone know how I can ID the software being used to put the drives up, eg Magic ISO etc, so that I can uninstall them?

Right clicking and looking at properties doesn't yield any useful info.

[sulasno]

what OS are you running ?

go to Control Panel, System, Device Manager and remove the virtual hard drives

[CrankyCarrot]

Windows 7

I removed them that way, but then when I rebooted they were back.

With weird new labels too:

ZILKNE FSTER81Y CdRom

&

MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ880AS ATA Drive

[sulasno]

remove them as in uninstall ?

[Supernova]

Open Device Manager.

Click View > Devices by connection.

If you can't remove them, uninstall ALL image mounting software and reinstall Daemon.

[CrankyCarrot]

Open Device Manager.

Click View > Devices by connection.

If you can't remove them, uninstall ALL image mounting software and reinstall Daemon.

I did that and alas, the drives came back the next time I restarted. Hmmm...

[sulasno]

you might need a registry hack

[Spoonman]

A MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ880AS ATA Drive is an actual physical drive, why do you want to remove that, unplug the cable and it will disappear.

[Spoonman]

A MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ880AS ATA Drive is an actual physical drive, why do you want to remove that, unplug the cable and it will disappear.

it doesn't have to be a physical drive. Look at the text from the screen shot. "We suggest ...." etc etc

"MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ880AS ATA Drive" is a fairly comprehensive name to label a virtual drive though.

[CrankyCarrot]

Maybe this screen grab will help:

http://twitpic.com/5k62w7

I find this frustrating, but maybe there's a reason why when you click properties on a specific DVD drive in My Computer, it shows you a list of all of their names without specifying which is which in terms of drive ID - eg E:, F: etc

I don't know what the Acer D110 thing is - I have a 4-port USB hub plugged in, but that's branded 'Apacer' (close in name, I guess, but...)

I just assumed the vanilla 'CD Rom drive' was the real drive and the rest were fakes. Then there's that other ST95 etc thing in there... Confusing.

Besides the real DVD drive and the USB port, I have a laptop HDD partitioned in two and an external 2TB drive.

In my case the drive order for DVDs is E: (real drive), F: (virtual), G: (virtual)

The two virtual drives show up in My Computer as 'BD-Rom' Drives too.

http://twitpic.com/5k64e6