Removing Drive from My Computer

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I have a drive showing on My Computer that doesn't exist - it was a drive on
a dual-boot system which has been changed. How do I remove this Drive Icon
from My Computer? (It's the only place this icon shows.....)

XP Pro SP2 with all updates.

Thanks
 
Gordon said:
I have a drive showing on My Computer that doesn't exist - it was a drive on
a dual-boot system which has been changed. How do I remove this Drive Icon
from My Computer? (It's the only place this icon shows.....)

XP Pro SP2 with all updates.

Thanks
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Run regedit.exe and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.
Now delete the non-existing drive and reboot the machine.
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
Run regedit.exe and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.
Now delete the non-existing drive and reboot the machine.
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Unfortunately, I can't identify the drive in that Registry key. My Computer
shows it as drive W: but there's no drive W: showing in that key!

How do I identify it?
 
Gordon said:
Unfortunately, I can't identify the drive in that Registry key. My Computer
shows it as drive W: but there's no drive W: showing in that key!

How do I identify it?
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Mmh. Don't know about that one. Try this:
- Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
- Type these commands:
mountvol > c:\vol.txt
notepad c:\vol.txt
- Paste the text into your reply. Does it show drive W:?
- What drive letters are shown in DosDevices?
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
Mmh. Don't know about that one. Try this:
- Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
- Type these commands:
mountvol > c:\vol.txt
notepad c:\vol.txt
- Paste the text into your reply. Does it show drive W:?
- What drive letters are shown in DosDevices?
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Found the answer. It must have been a throwback from an installation of
Ext2IFS
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm

which I'd /thought/ I'd uninstalled and had re-installed. I have just
uninstalled it again(!) and rebooted. The errant drive is no longer there,
but my /real/ Linux drives now are.

Thanks for the help.
 
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