windows 7 DVD Files Still Available in Browser After Removed From DVD Drive

[Guest HeinGrobler]

Good day,

 

 

I need some answers regards to a strange thing that happened to me whilst working on a users computer.

 

 

I had to re-installed a printer driver from a DVD on a normal Windows 7 workstation pc. I presumed that the user left the driver DVD in the DVD ROM from the previous time we installed the driver as de DVD showed up in Windows explorer as normal and I could browse the files that was on the DVD.

 

 

After the installation was done I opened the DVD ROM to remove the DVD..., but to my surprise...., there was no DVD in the DVD ROM.

 

 

After closing the DVD ROM the files was gone on the Explorer and the drive returned back to a normal empty DVD ROM drive showing no media inserted....?

 

 

Now my question is....,

 

 

Was the DVD cashed in some or other way which allowed me to browse the content VIA the Windows browser, even though the DVD wasn't physically in the DVD ROM..?

 

 

Or was the DVD inserted into the DVD ROM prior to a Windows Hibernation and then the DVD was removed by a user upon the resume process, in such a way that the system still thought "cashed" the DVD was in the drive which allowed me to browse the data even though the physical media wasn't present...?

 

 

A mystery to me as I haven't seen such phenomena before.....

 

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