Re: How do I get rid of a drive letter?

Right click My Computer and select Manage, Disk Management. Locate the non-existant drive and right click it. You can remove the drive letter there.

You might also want to go into Device Manager and see if the device is physically listed. It shouldn't be, if its been removed, but........

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"Victor" <young@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dmu662tmhpnki8hbak4kh2oe1vdo7n4437@xxxxxxxxxx
I once had a CDR drive and a CDRW drive. Now I only have the latter.
The CDR drive still shows up in 'My Computer' etc and ties up a drive
letter of course. How do I remove it? I no longer need it and would
like to get rid of it.

Thanks
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