Phantom Drives In Computer Window.
Jan 3, 2009
I have a 100gb Seagate portable hard drive, which is split 50/50 between an HFS partition for leopard, and a NTFS partition for windows. When I added the windows partition, it asked me what letter to give it, so to make it memorable, I gave it Z:/. Now, after it has been plugged in a few times, I see in "Computer" that is listed many times, as "Local disk ('Letter')". I removed the drive letter setting completely, thinking that would help, but it didn't change anything, now the real listing just says G instead of Z. but the phantom drives are still there.
the REAL listing for the drive is the Seagate NTFS (G/) one. However all of the other ones work as well and show the contents of the drive. Now, I have another portable hard drive that is 500GB, that is also split half and half the same way, and it never does this. is there any way to force vista to double check it's mounted drives to see if they all really exist?
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Mar 18, 2009
Since installing Vista HP (about 6 months ago), I have had a 'phantom' CD drive (always Drive Letter E).
I have so far tolerated it - but not knowing what the h&ll it is is irritating me!
The FOXCONN Motherboard has an (unused) CD connector, but FOXCONN don't believe that that is the problem.
Computer has:
2 x HDD, SATA connected
2 x CD/DVD, IDE connected
External 80 GB USB Hard Drive.
Internal USB Multi-Card Reader/USB Port
On boot
C: - SATA HDD
D: - SATS HDD
E :- unknown CD Drive ?
F: - IDE CD/DVD
G: - IDE CD/DVD
H: - 80GB USB External Drive
I: - Multi-Card Reader
K: - Multi-Card Reader
L: - Multi-Card Reader
M: - Multi-Card Reader
N: - Multi-Card Reader (USB Flash Drive on USB Port)
Drive E: appears in My Computer/Windows Explorer. Drive E: does NOT APPEAR in Disk Management (so I cannot change its Drive Letter and letter E is NOT AVAILABLE),OR Device Manager (in a way that I can identify)
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I think I hit the computer with a hammer exactly twice. The K: drive didn't go away.
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