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JeremySpoken

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July 14th, 2005 13:00

Additional CD-Drive?

This might sound slightly stupid, but here's my problem:
I've got an Inspiron 5160 notebook, and after some extensive searching I am still pretty sure that it (physically) has only one cd-drive. Inspite of this, Windows' "My computer" lists *two* cd-drives.

So where does the second one come from? Is it a virtual drive some pre-installed software emulates? If that is the case, I'd like to know which software it is and how to use it (it's not like I hadn't tried to find out).
If it's not that, then it's probably some dummy for an additional external cd-drive or the computer's just completely gone bananas, but I'd still like to know anyway.

Thanks a lot.
  • bacillus

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    Posted July 14th, 2005 14:00

    As you have rightly concluded your model laptop only has one physical optical drive.
    How does device manager identify each optical drive?
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    Posted July 14th, 2005 15:00



    @bacillus wrote:
    As you have rightly concluded your model laptop only has one physical optical drive.
    How does device manager identify each optical drive?




    This is what Windows' device-manager sais:
    1) Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
    2) HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4243N

    I can't even say which one is the real one...
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    Posted July 14th, 2005 17:00

    The Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device is a virtual drive.
    Have you installed any different burning software like Alcohol or daemon tools?
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    Posted July 14th, 2005 20:00

    np
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    Posted July 14th, 2005 20:00



    @bacillus wrote:
    The Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device is a virtual drive.
    Have you installed any different burning software like Alcohol or daemon tools?




    The Daemon Tools it was. I completely forgot I had them on the computer because somebody else installed them and I never used them. (*stupid*)

    Thanks a lot for your help.