Dead Removable drives

[eXistenZ]

Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Service Pack 2
Single user
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I have four drives showing in Computer
They came pre installed with my computer.
Removable Disk F
Removable Disk H
Removable Disk I
Removable Disk I

When I click on each I get:
"Please insert a disk into Removable Disk I '... same for each drive

How do I get rid of them?

Any help or advice appreciated
eXistenZ

 

[Richard G. Harper]

These would most likely be card-reader slots for CF, SD, etc. type memory
cards. Find and disable the card reader controller/controllers in Device
Manager and that should disable the card slots.

 

[eXistenZ]

Thanks Richard
That worked *but* on reboot
Windows put them back.

 

[DL]

Why are you worrying?
If it realy bugs you open up the PC and disconnect the reader

 

[Billns]

Why are you worrying?
If it realy bugs you open up the PC and disconnect the reader

I agree, why worry about it? I have a floppy disk drive, which gets used
about once a year. Yesterday I managed to copy some data from a 1987
floppy disk to my hard drive. I was surprised that the disk was still
readable. I was even more surprised when my Javelin Plus software from
that disk ran just fine in a command window.

Bill

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Make sure you're logged in with a full administrator account - on my system
when I disable hardware it stays disabled even after a reboot.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Service Pack 2
Single user
---------------------
I have four drives showing in Computer
They came pre installed with my computer.
Removable Disk F
Removable Disk H
Removable Disk I
Removable Disk I

When I click on each I get:
"Please insert a disk into Removable Disk I '... same for each drive

How do I get rid of them?

Any help or advice appreciated
eXistenZ

They are your memory card slots, as already mentioned.

If you insert a memory card into one of the slots, the message will go
away, you will be able to read that card's contents, and you will be able
to write to that card also.

Be sure to put a card into the slot designed for it, not another slot.