Try going into your BIOS, and for the CDROM set it to None, rather than
CDROM, or Auto... This might help in your situation. Also try Going into the
control panel, and select the Add new hardware wizard, it is much more
thorough. Another option may be to set the CDRW as the Slave instead of
Master. But first change the Bios Setting to None... It will still be
detected, but maybe just once this way!!! May be worth a try in your case!

Good Luck!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Parrish" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] CD-RW Shows twice in My Computer


> Hello again,
>
> I tried booting to safe mode and removing all devices under the CD Rom
heading.
> Upon rebooting to normal mode, the two instances of my CD-RW are once
again in
> the Device Manager. Does anyone else have an idea that might work?
>
> Thanks.
>
> "Steven J. Wolfe" wrote:
>
> > Just as a rule of thumb, whenever you see multiple devices listed in the
> > device manager, you cannot just remove one, but you must remove all
multiple
> > listings. Then when you reboot, it should just find the one device, and
set
> > up appropriately. And even better yet, do this in safe mode, you will
many
> > times see even more listings of those devices in Device Manager, than
what
> > is showing in the Normal Device manager. For example, I recently was
having
> > problems with some USB card readers in a system, they were shown only
once
> > in Regular mode, But... when in safe mode, there were 6 listing for one
> > reader, and 4 for the other. So remove all instances of multiple
listings in
> > device manager in SAFE Mode as well, and Reboot!!
> >
> > Good Luck....
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I recently removed two smaller drives from my three drive system, and
> > > added a 30 gig hard drive as the slave on the primary channel under my
> > > boot drive. I had a CD-RW drive mastering the old [now removed] third
> > > hard drive on the secondary IDE channel and the jumper on this CD-RW
is
> > > set to Master.
> > >
> > > Since removing the slaved hard drive on the secondary channel, my
CD-RW
> > > shows up twice in My Computer and also in the Device Manager. I've
tried
> > > removing the second one from Device Manager, but on reboot Windows 95
> > > just puts it back in for me.
> > >
> > > I've seen some drive jumper listings showing no jumpers jumped for a
> > > single drive on a channel. Should I remove the jumper entirely from
the
> > > CD-RW drive to resolve the double listing or is something else causing
> > > the problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help you can be.
> > >
> > > Ray Parrish
> > >
> >
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