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DVD Drive reported when no hardware

by MDurre Apr 25, 2009 7:40PM PDT

I have a HD DVD-ROM drive reported on Windows Explorer (Vista Home Premium) when I do not have any hardware for it installed. It appears as drive letter F: (my standard CD-DVD is letter EHappy.

The hardware appears as "JOH FW1A78PM SCSI CdRom Device" and I swear on my mother's grave I don't have this hardware installed. I have done the usual things like uninstalling it from the device manager, and it just re-appears at reboot, so something is being auto-recognized. It reports 0 bytes total and free all the time.

I have also uninstalled software that *might* have created a new drive, e.g. Nero, but nada. I notice that it reports itself as a SCSI device, even though I don't have a SCSI port. I have disabled the SCSI Initiator, but the problem still persists

I have checked for malware (using Ad-Aware and Spybot), but nothing, and I have AVG anti-virus. Any thoughts, please?

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Disable it in device manager.
by Kees Bakker Apr 25, 2009 7:47PM PDT
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Alreadty done this
by MDurre Apr 25, 2009 7:53PM PDT

I already did this, I both disabled AND uninstalled it - when I restart it reappears! This is what I'm worried about, where is it coming from?

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(NT) Only disable. Don't uninstall.
by Kees Bakker Apr 25, 2009 8:13PM PDT
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Nero has that IMAGE DEVICE.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 25, 2009 9:32PM PDT
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