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DVD ROM showing up as removable disk

Aug 5, 2004 6:12AM PDT

A Couple of weeks ago I posted for help, my DVD ROM drive had stopped accessing any disks. I just installed a new MSI DVD ROM drive and now it shows up in My Copmputer as a removable disk. This is not right at all. If I click it it says the disk needs to be formatted, then hangs my machine. It is not listed at all in Control panel, so I can't search for divers or remove the entry in systems. The hardware wizard did not find any new hardware when I insdtalled it. I tried looking for it manually but found nothing. Before I installed it I did remove the old listing for the prevois drive which had stopped accessing all disks.This is driving me nuts. Running Win 98 SE

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