PrincipalityFusion
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Here's the situation. You go to uninstall Virtual Clone Drive and when you reboot, you find that access to your other optical drives has totally disappeared. This happended to me two times, the first when i went to uninstall an older version and replace it with a new version. I thought that if i just upgraded without uninstalling, that would solve the issue, but when i decided to move my virtual drive to another computer, i went to uninstall it and got the same result, no optical drive access after uninstall.
I remember someone talking about a registry change or something. I tried that and all i did was hose my registry. So in the quest to find a solution, i decided to go to hardware manager and uninstall the Elby Clonedrive from there. When i tried that, SUCCESS!!! I could still access my optical drives. Then i decided to uninstall the executable to see if that was the culprit. I uninstalled and SUCCESS, i could STILL see my optical drives. Rebooted, same thing, i could still see my optical drives.
To make sure i was on to something, i reinstalled the latest VCD and uninstalled (without first uninstalling the driver) and wouldn't you know, i could no longer see my optical drives.
So the point of all this is that if for some reason, you need to uninstall VCD, uninstall the optical driver first through hardware manager and then uninstall the executable.
I don't know if it's a bug or not, but it works consistently like that so i just thought that i would share.
I remember someone talking about a registry change or something. I tried that and all i did was hose my registry. So in the quest to find a solution, i decided to go to hardware manager and uninstall the Elby Clonedrive from there. When i tried that, SUCCESS!!! I could still access my optical drives. Then i decided to uninstall the executable to see if that was the culprit. I uninstalled and SUCCESS, i could STILL see my optical drives. Rebooted, same thing, i could still see my optical drives.
To make sure i was on to something, i reinstalled the latest VCD and uninstalled (without first uninstalling the driver) and wouldn't you know, i could no longer see my optical drives.
So the point of all this is that if for some reason, you need to uninstall VCD, uninstall the optical driver first through hardware manager and then uninstall the executable.
I don't know if it's a bug or not, but it works consistently like that so i just thought that i would share.