Resolved Phantom Drive in File Explorer

This may or may not be a Windows 10 specific issue, but the OS is Win 10 ......

A few days ago I noticed a phantom drive in File Explorer - Local Drive S. It has zero properties, cannot be accessed and does not appear in Disk Management - see screenshots below.

I would like rid of it

As it is referred to as a Local Disk removing all the USB Controllers, etc would not seem to be appropriate.

Thoughts?

 

Neil - thanks for your response

I have no external storage devices permanently plugged in to the PC - my external hard drives, thumb drives or a card reader are plugged in as required and disconnected via Safely Remove. The exception is my TomTom Satnav which is not recognised as a drive in File Explorer or elsewhere - this is apparently correct - as is just pulled out.

However - I may have found the solution via roundabout route. I have not yet received the November update on this PC (both laptops have received it) and am checking Settings > Updates regularly. Today I noticed under Advanced Options "Some settings are managed by your organization " - no way I am the organisation Googling for the issue pulled up the following gem -

I had Basic set (on the basis of tell MS as little as possible), changed it to Enhanced and the message disappeared. Incidentally I had changed this setting a few days ago to Basic.

After a shut down the phantom drive has also disappeared - go figure!

I'll make another shut down and edit this post as appropriate.

EDIT - Following a cold boot the phantom drive has NOT reappeared - fingers crossed!