USB drive letters still visible even after ejecting and disabling

[Guest Mary]

I used to have 3 external USB hard drives permanentaly connected to my

computer and I had one USB drive that I would connect off and on. I am

intending to consolidate all my external drives and have 'ejected' all of

them. I also went into Disk Mgmt and disabled them. However, My computer

and also Disk Mgmt. still lists "G, H, I, J" drive. If I add another drive,

it shows up as K or later.

 

Oh, I also went into the registry to delete the references there.

 

How can I get rid of G, H, I, J and free them up for re-use ?

 

Thanks,

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: USB drive letters still visible even after ejecting and disabling

 

 

"Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:E7D22720-82D5-4621-AB51-7DA64B421D5D@microsoft.com...

>I used to have 3 external USB hard drives permanentaly connected to my

> computer and I had one USB drive that I would connect off and on. I am

> intending to consolidate all my external drives and have 'ejected' all of

> them. I also went into Disk Mgmt and disabled them. However, My

> computer

> and also Disk Mgmt. still lists "G, H, I, J" drive. If I add another

> drive,

> it shows up as K or later.

>

> Oh, I also went into the registry to delete the references there.

>

> How can I get rid of G, H, I, J and free them up for re-use ?

>

> Thanks,

 

There is no "disable" option in diskmgmt.msc, only a "remove"

option. This is the one you need to select.

 

Where exactly did you delete them in the registry? Did you

subsequently reboot the machine?

[Guest Mary]

Re: USB drive letters still visible even after ejecting and disabl

 

Re: USB drive letters still visible even after ejecting and disabl

 

Thanks for the prompt response.

 

Yes, I have rebooted the machine.

 

On the registry, I had deleted the entry in HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE;SYSTEM;

MOUNTED DEVICES: DosDevices/H etc. Did this by right-clicking and deleting.

 

 

In checking the registry, these entries are back in the registry.

 

 

Mary

 

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>

> "Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:E7D22720-82D5-4621-AB51-7DA64B421D5D@microsoft.com...

> >I used to have 3 external USB hard drives permanentaly connected to my

> > computer and I had one USB drive that I would connect off and on. I am

> > intending to consolidate all my external drives and have 'ejected' all of

> > them. I also went into Disk Mgmt and disabled them. However, My

> > computer

> > and also Disk Mgmt. still lists "G, H, I, J" drive. If I add another

> > drive,

> > it shows up as K or later.

> >

> > Oh, I also went into the registry to delete the references there.

> >

> > How can I get rid of G, H, I, J and free them up for re-use ?

> >

> > Thanks,

>

> There is no "disable" option in diskmgmt.msc, only a "remove"

> option. This is the one you need to select.

>

> Where exactly did you delete them in the registry? Did you

> subsequently reboot the machine?

>

>

>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: USB drive letters still visible even after ejecting and disabl

 

Re: USB drive letters still visible even after ejecting and disabl

 

 

"Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:0BF12944-8E1D-439F-92F9-F61C57985878@microsoft.com...

> Thanks for the prompt response.

>

> Yes, I have rebooted the machine.

>

> On the registry, I had deleted the entry in HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE;SYSTEM;

> MOUNTED DEVICES: DosDevices/H etc. Did this by right-clicking and

> deleting.

>

> In checking the registry, these entries are back in the registry.

>

> Mary

>

 

Let's try a little experiment. Do it with all USB deviced unplugged.

1. Download this file to c:\DiskParms.vbs. You will find it at this

location for a limited time.

http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1676800_zti1c/diskparms.vbs

2. Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}

3. Type the following commands:

mountvol>c:\test.txt{Enter}

fsutil fsinfo volumeinfo g:>>c:\test.txt{Enter}

dir g:\>>c:\test.txt{Enter}

cscript //nologo c:\diskparms.vbs >>c:\test.txt{Enter}

notepad c:\test.txt{Enter}

4. Paste the contents of the file you see into your reply.