Strange CD drive problem

[Li Li]

On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 23:49 +0930, squareyes wrote:
> Hi,
> have just installed 10.04  on a friends machine. Machine had win7
> did an install using complete hard drive , but when up and running, 
> shows there
> to be a CD already in the drive . Double clicking phantom cd icon show 
> the contents to be a
> number of windows executables (Blue diamonds). Ejecting the CD removes 
> the icon, but when cd
> tray closes, the icon re-appears. When another cd is placed in the tray 
> it can be accessed,
> but when removed the phantom CD re-appears when the empty tray closes.
> 
> Any ideas as to why this is happening, and how to permanently remove it
> would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance

Maybe you're seeing a Win7 restore partition.  Take a look with gparted.

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