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Extra drive showing in Explorer which won't go away

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xsergeantd

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Running XP on a system, I plugged in a broken flash drive to see if I could recover anything for my daughter - I couldn't. The OS saw the drive, but when clicking on Removable Disk (E🙂, it said drive needs to be formatted. I pull the drive to try data recovery on my Mac, but the E: drive is still showing in Explorer. I have restarted, checked properties on the drive - everything is 0 bytes, but I don't know why there is still a drive showing which hasn't been connected for days.
No problems are occurring when plugging in other drives, they just move to H:, but I am curious as to why, how the missing drive is being recognized, and if anyone know how to remove this phantom E: drive.

Thanks
 
Have you checked Disk Management at all? In most situations that should give you an idea of what device is the source of the phantom drive?
 
What kind of Drives?

Extra CD/DVD derived from mounted software drive are quite common as well as Drives of Memory cards (USB/CF/SD...) if installed.


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Arrgh, Thanks ViRGE. DM let me know it's my new cloud printer. Don't know why it's showing up as a disk drive. I thought I removed the USB cable after it's cloud setup was done, but I had not.
Sorry for the mental fart,
thanks.
 
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