Xtra generic cd drives

[scotrw]

I have 4 cd drives listed in device manager, the 2 that I have & 2 generic drives.I have tried removing them in device manager but they just keep coming back, this is an old "99" Win 98 system & I don't recall doing anything that would create them. My 2 drives are a cd-rom & a cd burner both years old, the only problem I notice is that on occassion when I put a cd in either drive Explorer wont read it till I put any cd in the other drive, even a blank cd, any suggestions ?? Doesn't bother the comp, just that I've had this for over a year now & can't figure out how to get back to my 2 drives,
Bob

[DELTREE]

What you might do is, go into My computer>Open>Right click,Properties>Hardware>Left Click Properties and see if this will give you some Info. to help you out; you can do this for all your disk.If you have a troubleshooter try that.I hope this maybe of some help?

[Nick Grana]

Boot to safe mode and remove those extra items from device manager.
If they still return, in device manager, open properties on the 'phantom' drives and put a check mark in 'Disable in this hardware profile' and see what happens then after a reboot.:cool:

[jtdoom]

have you ever installed virtualCD? or virtual drive? or similar?

[scotrw]

I have tried all suggestions, to no avail. Guess when it bugs me enough I will do a clean install of 98.
JTdoom I did try a program that installed virt. CD drives, I went back & d/loaded it again & clicked on unmount drives, didn't help, anyway tks. for the suggestions will just live with it for now,
Bob