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D drive just showed up?

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Russ7

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I have had this computer for 6 years and have always had C drive for my primary and then E drive for my CD drive and F drive for my DVD drive. Now all of a sudden D drive pops up on my system, each time I empty my recycle bin the computer ask if I want to format D Drive.
If I try to access the D Drive I get this message. D:\ drive not accessible--- A device attached to the system is not functioning?
It shows up on my computer screen as A, C, D, E, F but I cant do anything with D how do I get rid of it???
 
Does it appear in Disk Management? While I believe that you need to get rid of it, you should try to identify what it is, and where it came from.
 
I looked in device management and did not see any thing new, I did run a virus scan on it and turned up no virus, but see that the virus software reported 30 files scanned in D drive. I can not access the file in any way and have tried everything I know to delete it, but now I wonder what the 30 files are?? Any Ideas?
 
Not at the moment, I'll have to think about it. The only way that I know that I could put an invisible drive on my system is with an encryption system, like PGPDisk. I would definitely be concerned about the problem, because if you didn't creat it, someone else did and those 30 files are not likely to be desirable. Recently, after running SpyBot, AdAware and my AV, which all gave my system a clean bill of health, I ran SpySweeper and it found a keylogger that it quarantined. All that I'm saying is that all protection programs are not equal.
 
I had to take a while to think about this, because I couldn't remember the name of a program that I had in mind that might let you identify the files on the drive. The one that I'm most familar with (Sequoia View) wasn't available when I tried, perhaps server problems. But I came across another that is similar and may serve the purpose:

http://windirstat.info/
 
You looked in "Device Management" and didn't see anything new, but did you check disk management? You can see in there all the current drives on a system, including partitions that you can't access or are hidden from Windows Explorer. You can also delete it from there, too.
 
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