Phantom removeable drive ?

[chocolatemint77581]

I have a listing of a removeable drive at E: that appears to be a real
mystery.

I have one unused USB port, but it takes a new drive letter if I plug
in a thumbdrive.

I can't change it's drive letter either.

Any ideas as to what it is?

Thanks

 

[BillW50]

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(e-mail address removed) typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:43:09 -0700
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I have a listing of a removeable drive at E: that appears to be a real
mystery.

I have one unused USB port, but it takes a new drive letter if I plug
in a thumbdrive.

I can't change it's drive letter either.

Any ideas as to what it is?

Thanks

Optical drives and card readers will show up as drives when nothing is
plugged into them. So what happens when you open the drive under
Explorer? Does it show files and folders on the drive?

 

[Malke]

I have a listing of a removeable drive at E: that appears to be a real
mystery.

I have one unused USB port, but it takes a new drive letter if I plug
in a thumbdrive.

I can't change it's drive letter either.

Any ideas as to what it is?

Got a printer with an SD card reader?

Malke

 

[Mint]

(e-mail address removed) typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:43:09 -0700
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Optical drives and card readers will show up as drives when nothing is
plugged into them. So what happens when you open the drive under
Explorer? Does it show files and folders on the drive?

It shows nothing.

I may move my USB 2.0 card to another slot and see what happens.

Shouldn't hurt anything.

I do have a HP printer that "shows up as a drive", under Disk
Management
but can't think of any reason why it would need another drive letter.

Andy

 

[Mint]

Got a printer with an SD card reader?

Malke

My external devices are two 2.0 USB ports that are both being used, a
scanner and a USB printer.

I forgot that under Device Manager, it shows a PCI device with a
question mark.
That showed up after a hard drive went bye-bye and I had to do an XP
re-install.

I disabled it.

Andy

 

[Mint]

Got a printer with an SD card reader?

Malke

I found out what the E: drive was.

It is used by my HP USB printer.
I guess it needed to reserve a drive letter.

I figured out how to get my thumb drive to consistently use 2
consecutive drive letters.

My last drive was H:
So I assigned drive I: to the thumb drive.

Now when I plug it in and then open an encrypted partition on that
drive, it nicely picks J: as the next drive.
Now I don't have to have multiple batch files to copy files to my
thumb drive.

Andy

 

[smlunatick]

I found out what the E: drive was.

It is used by my HP USB printer.
I guess it needed to reserve a drive letter.

I figured out how to get my thumb drive to consistently use 2
consecutive drive letters.

My last drive was H:
So I assigned drive I: to the thumb drive.

Now when I plug it in and then open an encrypted partition on that
drive, it nicely picks J: as the next drive.
Now I don't have to have multiple batch files to copy files to my
thumb drive.

Andy

Please check the model of HP printer. Several HP printers that are in
the "Photo" family may have camera media slots. When these printers
are connected via a USB cable, their media slots show up on the PC as
"drive letters."