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resstealth
03-13-2006, 07:23 PM
ok guys, in my computer its showing that i have a cd drive and a dvd drive, i cant find the damn dvd drive anywhere on my computer, i even right clicked and ejected, no avail. this is a new computer and i really dont feel like opening it up, but i will if necessary. its a dell dimension b110, attached is a screenshot.

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4163/huh2pc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Richie C
03-14-2006, 11:39 AM
May be a virtual drive, you got anything like Alcohol 120% installed?
resstealth
03-14-2006, 05:38 PM
daemon tools, whats a virtual drive?
Richie C
03-15-2006, 04:55 AM
That'll be it then...

A virtual drive is exactly that, Daemon Tools fools the PC into thinking it has another drive. You can then use it to mount images of disks without having the disk in the drive, or even having the disk at all.
resstealth
03-15-2006, 05:43 AM
so what does that let you do?
Richie C
03-15-2006, 06:12 AM
Well, you can make images of disks you use, and mount them on the virtual drive, this will give you a performance increase. Or make images of disks you use a lot, save you swapping disks in and out of drives all the time, or use it to run disk images that you may have "aquired" from the "internet".
PiRatE.
03-15-2006, 04:42 PM
That'll be it then...

A virtual drive is exactly that, Daemon Tools fools the PC into thinking it has another drive. You can then use it to mount images of disks without having the disk in the drive, or even having the disk at all.

Yes but didn't he say that he had both a cd and a dvd drive? if there was a virtual drive, then there should be 3 total disk drives showing up.
joevil2024
03-15-2006, 04:47 PM
hmm, some computers, the cheepe ones, will have 1 drive, as mine has a dvd drive, and a second slot that is unused, in this case there have been some cases where the computer is reading a drive in the 2nd slot when its not in there at all

people make computers, dont expect perfection
Richie C
03-15-2006, 05:11 PM
That'll be it then...

A virtual drive is exactly that, Daemon Tools fools the PC into thinking it has another drive. You can then use it to mount images of disks without having the disk in the drive, or even having the disk at all.

Yes but didn't he say that he had both a cd and a dvd drive? if there was a virtual drive, then there should be 3 total disk drives showing up.

No, he say's his computer is showing that he has a CD and a DVD drive. There aren't many places to hide a dvd drive in a pc really are there?
joevil2024
03-15-2006, 05:20 PM
lol y the hell would you hide a dvd drive?
Alon
03-15-2006, 05:41 PM
lol its like one day he opens up his computer and hes like omfg a dvd drive it was hidden inbetween the cpu and its fan wow that might have been why my comp blew itself up
PiRatE.
03-15-2006, 10:33 PM
Oh. In that case then, I'm out of ideas.