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Resolved Drive Letter with no drive present

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by wjburl, 2011/02/05.

  1. 2011/02/05
    wjburl

    wjburl Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I have a laptop with a drive letter that has no HW associated with it. It's listed as:

    Local Disk (Q:)

    If I try to open it, I get a message that says it's not accessible. The properties show it has 0 bytes used and 0 bytes free. It doesn't show up in either the Device Manager or the Disk Management programs.

    I use Win 7 Home Premium.

    How do I get rid of it?
     
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    PeteC

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    If it's bugging you try in Windows Explorer Tools > Folder Options > View (or Control Panel > Folder Options) and ensure that 'Hide empty drives' is checked.

    Could be a card reader - many laptops have an integral card reader these days, but why Q:\ I have no idea :)
     
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    wjburl

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    It may have been put there with Pogoplug's SW, but if I start the Pogoplug resident SW, It uses R:. I would like to get the drive letter back because I have SyncToy setup to use Q: for backup.
     
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    wjburl

    wjburl Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I did have Office 2010 Beta installed for a while. Thanks for the link.
     
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    wjburl

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    I deleted Office 2010 Beta and the problem didn't go away. I tried the registry edit and it wan't clear to me what to delete on the step where it said to Modify the Value Data before you delete the reference to Q:, so I didn't do that. I will continue to search to see if there is another way to solve the problem but thanks again.
     
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    wjburl

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    There was another module to uninstall and that solved the problem. My apology to PogoPlug for accusing them.
     
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    PeteC

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    Glad to hear you found the culprit :)
     
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