A Cd Drive thats windoze 98 reckons is a removable device

[The PIT]

In fact it insists on it.
The drive is detected correctly under device manager.
Changing drive letters doesn't work. I did this as the user has a mobile phone thats detected as a drive.
Removed the device manager and ide channnels from 98 plus the CD drive and let it redetect them.
no change.
Did the same again but removed the reg entries this time.
No change.
Removed the phone software as the user reckoned it was around then it stopped working.
Still the same.
Updated the via drivers cougth splutter.
Still the same.
Checked what programs were starting up. Nothing untoward there.
Reloaded Bios.
No change.
The drive works nicely in Dos from a floppy boot.
There PGP which seems to do funny things to drives I ran out of time before trying that.
Any other ideas???

[seether]

Just a wild guess...

any packet writing drivers loading with windows (ez-cd, incd, etc...)? With nothing obvious in regedit, anything goofy lurking next to LOAD= or RUN= in win.ini ? Worst case, at this point scanreg /restore or repair couldn't really hurt much if you haven't already knocked that out.

just a thought

[The PIT]

Haven't looked in the win.ini. Doh.

He's got some cdripper software installed and Windows media player with cdburning support.