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webdav drive assignment got taken up by phantom CD drive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Dell Inspiron 3487
Note: I generally use the freeware Alex Nolan DriveMan to see the current assignments.
My normal CD/DVD drive, the only one on the puter, runs fine on the F:, and shows up as about 3.4 GB.
I used the WebDav facility in DriveHQ to create an H: drive for the DriveHQ interface.
While DriveHQ has a very nice file manager, by using the WebDav assignment I could have Syncovery or any backup program work directly. That worked fine.
On reboot, I am shown the H: as now being a visible CD/DVD drive with no information and 0 bytes. Thus the WebDav attempt on initiating gets "The local device name is already in use".
Is there a reason why this CD/DVD phantom drive shows up? Is there a WebDav communicating with OS problem?
Afaik (checking visually, Driveman originally, Belarc, etc.) there really is only one CD/DVD.
Any help appreciated as to why this drive appeared, and my best plan of action. (Theoretically I could just change the WebDav assignment and see what happen. Or perhaps delete the CD assignment? However, I would like to get to the root of the issue.)
Thanks!
Steven