If Windows XP go into Device Manager (Right Click 'My Computer' and choose 
Properties. Open the 'Hardware' tab and click on 'Device Manager'). Open the 
listing for DVD/CD Rom and right click on the drive. Choose 'Disable'.
Terry

"Nate Goulet" <askifyouwantaaddress@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:436af7a8.4662049@news.east.cox.net...
>
> My laptop will freeze up, then unfreeze and keep repeating the
> process.
>
> I'm pretty certain the problem is because of a flaky DVD drive or a
> driver problem.
>
> About 1/3 of the time I boot, at BIOS level I get an IDE #1 error.
>
> I've noticed that if the drive letter shows up in My Computer, the
> computer freezes up periodically.
>
> If i'm lucky enough to bootup and the drive letter does not show up,
> the laptop does not freeze up.
>
> Device manager doesn't seem to have an optiion to disable the drive.
> Only to uninstall it.
>
> My floppy has been dead for a couple years, and sometimes the DVD
> drive will function, which I seldom, but sometimes need.  Especially
> if I need to ever do a system restore.
>
> I have a USB Flash drive installed, which works fine.
> I also have a MP3 player, which is also a Flash drive.  That works
> fine too.  I don't recall immediately having problems after installing
> these drivers, should they be conflicting.
>
> I'm not certain how to remove the DVD drive on this, and i'm hoping
> there is another way to completely disable it without uninstalling the
> driver completely.
>
> The Toshiba Hardware Setup program, which basically is the BIOS
> program, doesn't seem to to have an option to disable the drive
> either.  I changed the boot priority to HDD, CD-ROM, FDD
>
> I'm ready to upgrade anyhow, but it would be nice to resolve these
> problems.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>