It hasn't happened during back ups but it still happens whenever it feels like it. Anyone know how to stop it from installing it when I turn it on again?Īlso, in addition to this, sometimes the drive randomly decides to turn off. But, just to test it, I turned it off then turned it on, and it automatically installed the virtual CD again. It worked and my external HDD still worked. So I went on the Drivers tab and clicked uninstall. Then I had to click Change Settings on the General tab and it reopened the same window but this time I could alter the Driver's tab settings. I saw the virtual CD there and I click on properties of that. But anyway, as for the virtual CD, I just tried going to My computer, right clicking on any drive, properties, and going on the hardware tab. Now I just use the Windows Back up tool and it works just fine. I had no problem deleting the "Toshiba tools" that screwed me over since I couldn't restore my files which were saved as a. Sorry to bump an old thread but I have the same External HDD and it's got the useless Virtual CD attached to it as well. There will probably be several listings like this, delete them all, make a new partition and format it as NTFS filesystem. Boot the disc, find partition tools and use Ranish, XFdisk or similar, be SURE to find the right hard disk number BEFORE you do anything (usually the highest number as it is external). If you still can't format the drive you need a low-level formatting tool, use a bootdisc like Ultimate Boot CD or Hiren's Boot CD, as drivers are needed to find the disk in DOS. If the disk has TWO partitions and only one is showing in XP you could try PartitionTool, it's free and will find disks up to 2TB. Then, if the HD has only ONE partition, open the drive root in an explorer window, choose folder options from the menu and select "show hidden files" and to be sure, uncheck "hide extensions for known filetypes", ok. The software usually makes various buttons on it work, these won't work if you do the following but you will have a clean hd:įirst, to remove the build of a virtual drive, type "msconfig" in startmenu/run, when the dialog appears, choose startup and find whatever resembles what you don't want, untick it and reboot. Additionally it may be formatted with two partitions, one small (typically hidden) partition for their bundled software and one regular. I suspect it's a "backup-ready" disk of some sort, yours probably mounting a drive at boot or something.
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