Reoccuring Safely Remove Hardware - T60 WinXP SP3

HI all,
I received my laptop back from the repair center today. Once I finished with the Windows setup the Remove Hardware Safely icon was waiting in the taskbar. The device it lists is the Mat**bleep**a DVD-RAM UJ-842 - [D:]. I followed the steps to Stop device and windows popped up the "it is now safe to remove ..." message and the Safely Remove Hardware icon was removed from the taskbar. When I restarted the Safely Remove Hardware icon returned. I have only plugged 1 device into the machine; a usb mouse. I have not installed any new programs either. What steps do I take to end this loop?
Happy New Year

Looks like the Handle command-line utility should be able to filter on D:\; quoting from the above link:
usage: handle [[-a] [-u] | [-c <handle> [-l] [-y]] | [-s]] [-p <processname>|<pid>> [name]
name
This parameter is present so that you can direct Handle to search for references to an object with a particular name.
For example, if you wanted to know which process (if any) has "c:\windows\system32" open you could type:
handle windows\system
The name match is case-insensitive and the fragment specified can be anywhere in the paths you are interested in.
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