Windows XP thinks my internal hard drive is also a phantom cd drive - how do I get rid of it?

Shadowkeeper

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I do not have a CD or DVD drive in my computer, but suddenly XP shoved a phantom CD drive into drive D, which is a problem as my Torrent drive was labeled D, so my active torrents won't work until it goes back to D. The hardware & driver properties for this phantom drive are identical to those for my internal hard drive - which means trying to disable the phantom drive disables the internal drive, causing a restart bluescreen until restarting in the previous configuration.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this phantom drive?
 
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Windows XP's Disk Manager is quite inadequate in some aspects, it's 10 year old technology (at best but rather year 2000 technology) so it's to be expected.. but an up to date third party disk manager should help... a Partition Manager or maybe a Partition Recovery application can do the job. Of the partition managers I know Active Partition Manager can see hidden partitions, so it's likely to see the phantom drive.
http://pcdisk.com/

Shadowkeeper

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Thank you for the response. Alas, the phantom drive doesn't appear anywhere but in explorer - because its properties are somehow registering as being the same as my internal hard drive, disk management doesn't see it, rendering it impossible to alter. Very frustrating!

Again, thank you for the response!
 
Windows XP's Disk Manager is quite inadequate in some aspects, it's 10 year old technology (at best but rather year 2000 technology) so it's to be expected.. but an up to date third party disk manager should help... a Partition Manager or maybe a Partition Recovery application can do the job. Of the partition managers I know Active Partition Manager can see hidden partitions, so it's likely to see the phantom drive.
http://pcdisk.com/
 
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