CD-Rom not present in disk manager

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PABresler Posts 3 Registration date Wednesday July 19, 2017 Status Member Last seen July 19, 2017 - Jul 19, 2017 at 11:54 AM
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I have a "phantom" CD-rom showing up in Computer as drive D. I want to use that letter for my second hard disk, but the phantom drive does not show up in disk manager, so I cannot change its drive letter.

I had an answer on MS community that said I needed third party software, but they would not tell me a name.
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Jul 19, 2017 at 05:39 PM
So, if the hardware manager doesn't see it, then how is it using the D drive?
PABresler Posts 3 Registration date Wednesday July 19, 2017 Status Member Last seen July 19, 2017
Jul 19, 2017 at 06:22 PM
The D drive is a phantom, and if I could would just remove it. It seems to be an error condition. It appeared after I cloned the C drive, which now is G. The clone appears to be good.
Do you want it to show up, or not? If not, disco the power to it, and viola you get the D back?!?!? Disable it in BIOS, even.

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PABresler Posts 3 Registration date Wednesday July 19, 2017 Status Member Last seen July 19, 2017
Jul 19, 2017 at 08:51 PM
This is not a physical drive. The physical drives show up and are not a problem. Are you aware of any software to correct the problem?
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Jul 20, 2017 at 04:29 PM
If it isn't a piece of hardware, then it sounds like you need to uninstall the virtual drive software you have enabled.