Vista - Mysterious CD Drive

I have Vista Home Premium and when I open MYCOMPUTER it shows a CD
Drive (K which I do not have on my system. I do have a couple of
DVD drives which show up as well as two hard drives, a floppy drive
and a multifunction card reader which shows up as four separate
removable drives.

Also when I go into Computer Management/Storage, there is no drive k:
there.

Could some application be setting up a virtual CD drive?

Al

Alfred Kaufmann wrote:
> I have Vista Home Premium and when I open MYCOMPUTER it shows a CD
> Drive (K which I do not have on my system. I do have a couple of
> DVD drives which show up as well as two hard drives, a floppy drive
> and a multifunction card reader which shows up as four separate
> removable drives.
>
> Also when I go into Computer Management/Storage, there is no drive k:
> there.
>
> Could some application be setting up a virtual CD drive?

A USB flashdrive with the U3 software installed will appear as a
CD rather than a USB drive. There may be other similar cases,
but I don't know.

"Alfred Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@hotmail.com> wrote in message
newsnad63hihm0q3nja9hk2838otuqr0fi632@4ax.com...
>I have Vista Home Premium and when I open MYCOMPUTER it shows a CD
> Drive (K which I do not have on my system. I do have a couple of
> DVD drives which show up as well as two hard drives, a floppy drive
> and a multifunction card reader which shows up as four separate
> removable drives.
>
> Also when I go into Computer Management/Storage, there is no drive k:
> there.
>
> Could some application be setting up a virtual CD drive?
>
> Al


My external HD is labeled as K on BackUp and Restore. Do you have an
external drive or device attached to a USB or FireWire?

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:44:15 -0700, Don <don195702@hotmail.com> wrote:

>A USB flashdrive with the U3 software installed will appear as a
>CD rather than a USB drive. There may be other similar cases,
>but I don't know.

I have a couple of flash drives but when they are plugged in they show
up as a removable drive (L.

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:48:45 -0400, "Ryka" <Ryka@dancin'shoes.com>
wrote:

>My external HD is labeled as K on BackUp and Restore. Do you have an
>external drive or device attached to a USB or FireWire?

I have unplugged everything that is external with no change. I have
my suspicions about the multi-function card reader but I think I would
have noticed that earlier. I'll have to open the case, unplug it and
see what happens.

Al