Phantom CD-ROM drive in Windows 10

[kilbypirate]

I recently wiped/reloaded Windows 10 on my Dell Latitude E7440 notebook. All of a sudden (not initially after wiping but sometime shortly after), I'm showing a CD-ROM drive in This PC, despite the fact that there is no CD ROM drive in the notebook. I've looked in disk management and device manager and cannot find the drive anywhere to remove it. It is causing one of my disk partitions to keep switching drive letters which is messing up my Dropbox. Any ideas on how to get rid of this phantom drive?

 

[Colif]

i don't suppose you have an iso file on your hdd? it might be mounted to that drive letter?

i am thinking that Novak Wu is on the right track here. do you have any iso file on your hard disk? any iso at all? if so, double-click that iso and see if it mounts into F:. then we'll know what cd software is generating that F: drive.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/e911bdb7-e9c0-46a7-b356-02a2b0db844e/drive-letter-assigned-to-cd-drive-that-does-not-exist?forum=w7itprogeneral

 

[kilbypirate]

Well, not exactly, but that thread did point me to the right answer- PowerISO had mounted a drive somehow, so I simply disabled it and the issue is fixed. Thanks!