I have two drives displayed in My Computer that don't exist

[Guest]

I wasn't thinking when I rebooted one afternoon and left my MP3 player
plugged in the USB port and after reboot, I had two new drives (I figure one
for the player's internal memory and one for the mircoSD that's in its
expansion slot).

They won't go away. I can't access them (I get a "the parameter is
incorrect" error) and they don't show up in the Computer Management utility,
so I can't tinker with them.

They show up as drives K: and L: (C, D and F are internal hard drives, E is
a CD-RW and G, H, I and J are virtual drives).

What can I do to get rid of these non-existent drives?

 

[z1z1z1]

I wasn't thinking when I rebooted one afternoon and left my MP3 player
plugged in the USB port and after reboot, I had two new drives (I
figure one for the player's internal memory and one for the mircoSD
that's in its expansion slot).

They won't go away. I can't access them (I get a "the parameter is
incorrect" error) and they don't show up in the Computer Management
utility, so I can't tinker with them.

They show up as drives K: and L: (C, D and F are internal hard drives,
E is a CD-RW and G, H, I and J are virtual drives).

What can I do to get rid of these non-existent drives?

What happens if you plug the MP3 player back in? Can you "safely remove"
it?

I've not tried this, but you may be able to remove the drive letters from
this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
(The usual warnings about backing up and so on apply...)

 

[Guest]

What happens if you plug the MP3 player back in? Can you "safely remove"
it?

I've not tried this, but you may be able to remove the drive letters from
this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
(The usual warnings about backing up and so on apply...)

The device, a Sansa Express, does not appear in the "safely remove hardware"
dialogue. Even the manual says you just unplug it when you're done.

Sandisk's support is useless.

As for the registry...I'd prefer not to mess around in there even after
backing it up.