How do I get rid of a drive letter?

[Victor]

Well this is interesting.

I told you all some time back that Device Manager showed a second
CD/DVD entry for a non-existing SCSI. Thinking that really might be
the culprit, I removed the SCSI entry from Device Manager, thereby
leaving only the one DVD. Then I went to Disk Management to try to
reassign drive letters to use the phantom drive letter - and guess
what? The letter was now usable. So I reassigned the last
drive-letter to E, and My Computer showed letter assignments as they
should be. Alas, when I re-booted I got the phantom drive again -
this time using the next free letter. Good golly!

V



Victor

 

[Robert Heiling]

Well this is interesting.

I told you all some time back that Device Manager showed a second
CD/DVD entry for a non-existing SCSI. Thinking that really might be
the culprit, I removed the SCSI entry from Device Manager, thereby
leaving only the one DVD. Then I went to Disk Management to try to
reassign drive letters to use the phantom drive letter - and guess
what? The letter was now usable. So I reassigned the last
drive-letter to E, and My Computer showed letter assignments as they
should be. Alas, when I re-booted I got the phantom drive again -
this time using the next free letter. Good golly!

Then Google on "Windows XP phantom device" without the quotes and the tips on
the first page there could help.

Bob

 

[paulmd]

Well this is interesting.

I told you all some time back that Device Manager showed a second
CD/DVD entry for a non-existing SCSI. Thinking that really might be
the culprit, I removed the SCSI entry from Device Manager, thereby
leaving only the one DVD. Then I went to Disk Management to try to
reassign drive letters to use the phantom drive letter - and guess
what? The letter was now usable. So I reassigned the last
drive-letter to E, and My Computer showed letter assignments as they
should be. Alas, when I re-booted I got the phantom drive again -
this time using the next free letter. Good golly!

V

Wait a minute, I should have asked this at the very beginning. ARE you
using Alchohol 120% or ANY drive emulators?

 

[Victor]

Wait a minute, I should have asked this at the very beginning. ARE you
using Alchohol 120% or ANY drive emulators?

As a matter of fact, Yes. Both machines. Why?

 

[paulmd]

As a matter of fact, Yes. Both machines. Why?

They create a VIRTUAL CD drive that you can dump an ISO CD image (or
other kinds of images) and you can treat it exactly as a real CD drive!
The virtual CD is your GHOST!

 

[Ken Maltby]

As a matter of fact, Yes. Both machines. Why?

JERK!!

 

[Fuey]

JERK!!

This JERK says thank you Paul, and good night.
V

 

[Ken Maltby]

This JERK says thank you Paul, and good night.
V

Are you saying that you use such a program and JUST didn't
think to mention it??? You had to have done this deliberately.
It's You, Victor who is the Jerk, not Paul. Paul was as taken
in, by your little game, as I was.

 

[paulmd]

Are you saying that you use such a program and JUST didn't
think to mention it??? You had to have done this deliberately.
It's You, Victor who is the Jerk, not Paul. Paul was as taken
in, by your little game, as I was.

He had me thinking this was some kind of leftover or I'd have asked
about the emulators straight away. GRRRRR...

 

[kony]

He had me thinking this was some kind of leftover or I'd have asked
about the emulators straight away. GRRRRR...

I don't quite understand it myself.
Someone has a problem and then it's like pulling teeth just
to get even a basic level of information about the system,
as if a user-configurable system MUST be just like everyone
elses... except for that part about how their system is
doing something funny that everyone else's, isn't.

The best reply is probably something like "undo what you did
just before the problem started".