On 26 Jan 2010, at 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote:
... I don't think it is possible to remove it. Disks with this kind of "helpful" stuff are annoying because of violating corporate policies, being seen as non-hdd by some devices that accept external hard drives (like a dvr, media center etc).
It should be mentioned that these virtual CDs can be immensely useful if your operating system doesn't ship with drivers for the unit - think home users of Windows.
The virtual drive appears as a standard CD drive, supported by all operating systems, and contains the needed software.
It is unfortunate, then, that the use of this has been extended from things like wifi & 3G cards, for which drivers are often essential, to hard-drives, which should appear as standard mass-storage devices, anyway. I assume this allows the manufacturer to ship the Clever Backup (tm) software which their marketing department deemed necessary.
Stroller.
