As always, you should make sure that you have got a working system restore
point before you run any test or installatiºn.
Use the System Restore utility in Windows to reset the OS to a time and date
point prior to the installatiºn.
I hope this post is helpful.
Let us know how it works ºut.
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"TeXaS*pEtE" wrote:
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> Greetings, i've had Vista ultimate 32-bit now for a few weeks and its been
> going great. This last weekend I installed Daemon tools and ever since my
> system has been freezing up completely, and I'm having to power off to get
> the damn thing to do anything. Since this happened the first time my working
> DVD drive vanished! and I was left with the virtual drive E: (my dvd drive
> having been d: I thought it must be Daemon tools, so I there fore
> uninstalled it as i thought it might be the virtual drive. But no! The
> virtual drive E: vanished then leaving me with an unknown DVD drive F:?????
> Now after swapping the around the dvd drive wiring inside the cpu, it has
> once more returned! But I'm still left with this F: drive. I managed to
> uninstall this useless drive and everything was fine, until later on the cpu
> froze AGAIN! I powered off, re-booted and shock horror The f: drive is back!
> along with my working D: DVD drive!
>
> I am still getting random crashes and mainly freezing of my system. Can
> anybody shed any light? I'm pretty sure its the DVD drive and Daemon Tools
> causing it (Even though its uninstalled). I did also notice when I was
> searching for hardware changes when I lost the DVD drive the first time,that
> it froze the system up as well. This other drive f: appears as LITE-ON then
> a load of numbers & letters and it says its a cdrom drive.
>
> My system is as follows:
>
> Processor: intel core duo E6600
> Motherboard: nforce 680i sli
> Memory: 2GB corsair twinX XMS2
> Graphics card: 768mb Gainward 8800GTX
> Hard Drive: 250 Gb Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm,
> 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
> 1.44Mb Sony Black Floppy Disk Drive OEM
> Bog standard DVD drive (make escapes me! but nothing fancy)
> LN18713 - DVD writer - £20.20(x2 because its so much better having 2)
> Windows vista ultimate 32-bit
>
>
> Thank you
>
>