The Mystery of the Ghost Drive

[DarkSerge]

So an odd thing happened. A reboot fixed the problem (for now, at least) but somehow a mysterious CD drive haunted my computer.A mysterious new drive showed up in My Computer. I have three hard drives, a floppy drive, a zip drive, and two optical drives (CD-RW and DVD-ROM) but for reasons unknown My Computer suddenly showed a third optical drive "CD Drive." I couldn't find any evidence of this drive anywhere else. Device Manger and Computer Management (in Administrative Utilities) did not show any extra drives. I couldn't find any evidence of this mystery drive except for it's icon showing up in My Computer.A reboot got rid of the mystery drive.Any ideas or theories?

[Guitar Man]

What you may be showing is a Virtual driveDo Nero, Alcohol120 or any other ISO cloning apps give a clue ?

[DarkSerge]

It showed up as a standard CD-ROM drive, not a burner. I was unable to copy files to it. When I looked at its Properties, it showed the same info as a CD or DVD drive without a disk inserted.How would a random virtual drive be created? I have Nero, but wasn't using it nor have I ever seen it do that.How would one get rid of a virtual drive if one like what I describe were to show up? (Is there a way other than a restart?)

[goretsky]

Hello,At any point, did you have a USB flash drive plugged into your hard disk drive with a write-protected disk volume on it? If so, perhaps this caused the "ghost drive" to apport in Windows Explorer.Regards,Aryeh Goretsky

[DarkSerge]

Might a thumb drive with U3 software (I think that's what it's called) do that? I transfered some photos to a friend's flash drive and it had the software.