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CD-ROM is now called Removeable

by grin_n_bare May 20, 2005 11:10AM PDT

I installed a DVD recorder as master and made my CD-ROM the slave. Both work fine, have burned a test with the DVD and viewed a couple CDs.

However in Explorer the CD-ROM is now named Removable Disc. Why is that?

Tks.

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it means

by ozos May 21, 2005 5:25AM PDT

that that is a removeable storage medium
the same CD isn't permanatly mounted in that drive
a hard drive is considered a non-removeable disk, as it doesn't have exchangeable media (you can't pop it open and change the platters to change your data) while CD, DVD, Floppy, Zip, Jaz, Tape and a few others are removeable
their storage media can be changed out

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Thank you, ozos.

by grin_n_bare May 21, 2005 11:53AM PDT

Thanks for the information, I really didn't know that about a CD-ROM being renamed Removable Disk in Explorer. I don't think I have ever seen that happen. Until now mine has always been called Compact Disc. I do know when I plug in a USB Flash Drive it's assigned a letter and is called Removable Disk.

The DVD is named Compact Disc.

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