Mystery Removeable Disk Drive

[Guest Dave]

In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD

partitioned into drives D & E, plus I have 2 additional removable disc

drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) for backup purposes.

 

Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the way,

my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new mysterious

removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I

should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.

 

How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the H

drive?

 

Win XP SP2

 

Dave

[Guest LVTravel]

Re: Mystery Removeable Disk Drive

 

Do you have a new printer (normally an inkjet photo type printer) that has a

flash card reader? If so the "phantom drive" is that card reader.

 

You can change the drive letter by going to Disk Management and changing the

drive letter of the phantom drive to a higher letter and then the USB drive

will either change back on the next reboot or you can assign the H letter to

it.

 

 

"Dave" <djbahb@dcwis.com> wrote in message

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> In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD

> partitioned into drives D & E, plus I have 2 additional removable disc

> drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) for backup

> purposes.

>

> Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the

> way,

> my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new

> mysterious

> removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I

> should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.

>

> How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the H

> drive?

>

> Win XP SP2

>

> Dave

>

>

>

>