It doesn't show up in Disk Management, there is no USB drives plugged in, and as you can see the properties show it as a RAW drive.
Anyone got some idea how I can get rid of it and free up the "G" allocation.
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Phantom Drive
Started by mps69_1999, Jul 16 2009 05:21 PM
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 05:21 PM
I've suddenly noticed a what I call a phantom drive on the PC. I just noticed it a few days ago when I moving some stuff around.
It doesn't show up in Disk Management, there is no USB drives plugged in, and as you can see the properties show it as a RAW drive.
Anyone got some idea how I can get rid of it and free up the "G" allocation.
It doesn't show up in Disk Management, there is no USB drives plugged in, and as you can see the properties show it as a RAW drive.
Anyone got some idea how I can get rid of it and free up the "G" allocation.
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 06:06 PM
No idea at all, but I did find this post about a similar thing
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-1035-0.ht...ssageID=3053525
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-1035-0.ht...ssageID=3053525
CCLEANER, RECUVA, DEFRAGGLER AND SPECCY DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND HERE
http://www.piriform.com/docs
http://www.piriform.com/docs
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 06:49 PM
Thanks for the link, unfortunately there in lies the problem, the drive doesn't showing up in disk management, it's only shows up within explorer, go figure. 
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 07:16 PM
I wonder if you have some sort of Image Backup software like Macrium Reflect, which enables you to mount that Backup Image as a drive, to enable it to be explored and copied from/to like a normal drive.
I've just mounted my Image Backup as Drive L, and it comes up the same as yours ... "Local Disk", although it doesn't show up as "Raw".
The possibility is that it was mounted, but wasn't later "detached" when finished with.
A long shot, but worth a mention.
I've just mounted my Image Backup as Drive L, and it comes up the same as yours ... "Local Disk", although it doesn't show up as "Raw".
The possibility is that it was mounted, but wasn't later "detached" when finished with.
A long shot, but worth a mention.
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Posted 17 July 2009 - 06:51 AM
What about a printer or something else with a memory card reader, sometimes they stay mounted without any memory cards inserted.
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Posted 17 July 2009 - 04:38 PM
I thought you'd hit the nail on the head there, but nope, I even mounted a camera to find out what would happen, but another drive letter is allocated.
Looks like I'm going to be stuck with it, to be honest it's not a major problem, it's just one of those annoying things.
Looks like I'm going to be stuck with it, to be honest it's not a major problem, it's just one of those annoying things.
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Posted 17 July 2009 - 08:48 PM
Phantom Drive. Is that like Dead Mans Curve?
