At some time, my laptop had the CDROM drive replaced. However, the old CDROM drive is still showing in System Information. How can this be removed?

System Information shows two optical drives: -
Logical Drive D: CDROM HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4241D
Logical Drive F: CDROM ML3032L OLU607O SCSI

Drive D: is an LG CD/DVD drive which is fitted, but has problems recognising some disks.
Drive F: is not fitted.

The BIOS shows only one CD/DVD, a Secondary Master.
I've tried removing Drive F: from System Hardware, but cannot.
I'd appreciate help.

Try this. Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. Right click on the Drive letter and Click Change Letter. One of your options is to Remove See if that works, just make sure you Click on the Drive you want to get rid of

Thanks g-paw, but prior to posting, I did all the normal Computer Management things.

The problem was solved when I realised that this was a 'ghost' entry and the removal of 'Daemon tools', which had been used by the previous owner of the laptop, got rid of the non-existent hardware!

yeah daemon tools. Does alot for me though

Glad you figured it out.

Gpaw thanks for the advice, I have a Samsung 300ld Hd which had a error during the install of XP PRO, i had partitioned the drivr into 4 drives after the install I had 5 and 250G was unusable, I followed your instructions and IT"S FIXED,thank you,thank you,thank you,thank you

Glad it worked for you, Santa comes through

I have a problematical variation.
I have a non-existant CD drive listed on the My Computer list with a letter I need for another drive (don't ask!). Unfortunately, it doesn't appear in the devices list or computer management list, so I cannot remove it or change it's allocated letter. Any ideas?
Thanks

When you are in the device manager goto VIEW and then select SHOW HIDDEN DEVICES. This should show the drive. From there you can delete it if it shows up.

No. It doesn't show there.