Disk F: don't have it, but I do??

[Bonnie]

XP Home edition, SP2: My Windows explorer "Tree" has been
showing a "Removeable Disk F:" for a while now, but I have no such
hardware. I may not have noticed it, but recently I was installing a
new peripheral, and Windows kept insisting on searching "F" drive for
a new driver, although I had that CD in my normal "E:" drive. Of
course, nobody home at "F" drive. I eventually worked around that.
Any ideas? Thanks, Bonnie

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Removable disks can now be:

Stand-alone units (USB drives -- flash, Cd, DVD, etc...)
Media cards (Compact Flash, Memory Stick etc..)
MP3 players (Ipod etc...)
Digital cameras
Photo quality printers with memory card slots.

What do you have???

 

[Guest]

Yves has a valid point. Windows terminology is not the best in the world
(far from it), so it may say something like "Removable Disk" but really mean
"Removeable data-interchange device that may be anything like what Yves
listed plus other things we don't know of yet". Learning Windows-speak is
more about knowing when a particular word is being used to specifically mean
what it says, as opposed to when it means a *completely* non-specific more
generic <insert what you want here> thing. In this case "disk" does not mean
specifically a disk drive storage device, but rather the
any-storage-type-thing-at-all device.

 

[Bonnie]

Thanks gang. I suspected it might have been a USB connected
device..... The latest being a canon laser copier/printer. What
puzzles me is that on one occasion, I was prompted to but my CD in it.
<g> I guess I'll try to unplug that device, boot up, and see if my
"F" drive goes away... at least I'll know if that's the culprit.

I did just try somethng else, right clicked on drive
"F", clicked "system information", and got this:

SI32 - entry point not found
The procedure entry point _diskgetphysicalinfo2 @ 4 could not be
located in the dynamic link library S32krnll.dll.
Thanks again, Bonnie.
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[Guest]

Hmm... VEEEEERRRRY EEnteresting (Remember Laugh-In... or maybe I'm aging
myself;-)
In the System Management>Disk Management console, what is being reported as
attached to drive F?
(anyplace you can get to a My Computer icon, Rt-click that puppy and select
Manage from the Context menu; when the System Management console opens click
Disk Management)
Tell us what it says there about Drive F

 

[Bonnie]

OK, I went there, did that: Drive 0: "Basic" (my partitoned HD,
everything is fine) Drive 1: "Removable "F": (no media)

While poking around in various areas, kept getting the mention of my
HP 7960 photoprinter in reference to drive "F". For instance, in same
console, "Storage", "removeable storage", "Libraries", it listed the
Photoprinter as a USB device, and my CD/DVD. (hooked up as either
primary slave, or secondary master)

Then I tried "system information", "components", "disks".... listed
details for my partitioned HD, (model, Maxtor) and then information
on that printer (model, HP Photosmart 7900 USB device)

My conclusion would be that my "F" drive is the photoprinter. (as Yves
first indicated might be the case) The thing is, I never used the
media card slot (slots?) in the printer, forgot it had them! I just
hope that in the future I'm not prompted to put a CD in there when
system is searching for a driver! Thanks much, Bonnie
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[Guest]

Yves most-definitely appears to have been right on the mark in his initial
Reply-post to you.

After doing just a little snooping on the HP website (http://www.hp.com) for
your printer
I found something which will in all liklihood answer your question. *You*
could (and really should have, for your own edification - there is nothing
better than "owning" the information you learn for yourself)
looked on HP's site first, but sometimes that site - and others - can be a
real frustration in finding things. So, go to www.HP.com and then:

Click on their Support & Drivers link
Select the "see support..." radio button
Enter "HP 7960" (w/o the "s) into the "for product: <field>" and click the
[>>] button
click the EXACT model-name description of your "HP Photosmart 7960? Photo
Printer" link in their list
Click Product Information
Click Product Specifications
Click "Memory Cards: Types and Troubleshooting"

herein lie the pages of Info available to you from HP regarding your "drive"
as Yves described: the memory card capability built-in to your printer is
what drive "F:" is.

The rest is up to you...;o)