re: a problem with del a Virtual CD-ROM drive

[reble]

re: a problem with del a Virtual CD-ROM drive

Os is Win7 Home 32bit. I was messing around with a few Virtual CD-ROM drive prog's. I was having trouble making them work right. So the heck with it. I del the Virtual CD-ROM prog's and now I am stuck with a Virtual CD-ROM drive with the drive letter of (G). Everything that I have tried has failed to del the Virtual CD-ROM and it's drive letter or it del's then re-pops up on the next system reboot.
I have tried the following things bellow.
1. In Device Manager > dvd/cd-rom drives > the name "roxio dvd-rom emulator scsi cdrom device".
That emulator is the driver for the Virtual CD-ROM drive. I tried to del the driver and it pops up in the same place after system reboot.
2. I tried going into admin tools > computer management > disk management > right click on the Virtual CD-ROM drive (listed as cd-rom2) go to properties > driver and hit the uninstall button. The drive letter will go away for a while then pop up again.
3. I tried 2 different system restore's to 2 different earlier dates. That didn't do any good.
4. I tried del all the Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 and it's sub prog's. That didn't do any good.
5. I tried 1, 2, 3, above in safe mode. The Virtual CD-ROM drive and drive letter is still there after reboot to normal win mode.
Now this Virtual CD-ROM drive does not seem to affect windows performance. Windows speed and everything else is fine. I am down to my last resource to del the Virtual CD-ROM drive. And that is to wipe the hard drive partition and reinstall everything from the backup cd/dvd's. Question is since Win7 seems to be running ok. Should I just ignore the Virtual CD-ROM drive or reformat the hard drive. With all the prog's I have on my laptop for the many things that I am into. It takes me around 6 to 7 hours to wipe the hard drive partition, reinstall windows then reinstall everything else. What should I do?


Steve

 

[Pauly]

You could try entering an elevated command prompt and running some commands Subst

subst - this will shows any active virtual drives
if the above shows your G: drive then try running
subst G: /d - this should remove the virtual drive

I understand your annoyance this would bug the hell outta me but if I couldn't remove it I personally wouldn't do a reinstall but just live with it, unless I had a image backup that was fairly recent then id prob just use that
Fingers crossed

 

[reble]

re: a problem with del a Virtual CD-ROM drive

I am not sure what you meen by "entering an elevated command prompt". I did a right click on the cmd prompt and opened it in "run as admin". I am assuming that's what you mean by "entering an elevated command prompt" and The cmd "subst" didn't find any virtual drives, active or not.

You could try entering an elevated command prompt and running some commands Subst

subst - this will shows any active virtual drives
if the above shows your G: drive then try running
subst G: /d - this should remove the virtual drive

I understand your annoyance this would bug the hell outta me but if I couldn't remove it I personally wouldn't do a reinstall but just live with it, unless I had a image backup that was fairly recent then id prob just use that
Fingers crossed

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there

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Now if you were to go to W8.1 or W10 you don't need these programs any more as Windows now comes with a built in .ISO virtual mounter (about time too IMO).

BTW don't bother about the rubbish "Supports W8" -- W8 and higher have built in Native support for this function so the software is redundant.

In a Virtual machine you can of course before booting say use .ISO image as a DVD device. Then when you want to change simply disconnect the DVD from the VM (usually in the VM menu) and connect a new .ISO via the menu again.

Cheers
jimbo