Two disc drive letters, one disc drive.

[Carfax83]

OK, this is weird. When I first installed Windows 7 on my computer, I only had two drives total. (C for my hardrive, and (D for my disc drive.

However, somewhere a long the line, I somehow managed to pick up an (E drive, although I do not have a second disc drive.. As far as I can tell, the (E drive serves no function whatsoever, and is "just there."

Here's a pic:

So how can I have two disc drives, when I only have one?

 

[Jetster...]

Its a partition

 

[alkemyst]

It's probably one of your devices plugged in that has ability for storage.

 

[Carfax83]

Its a partition

But I don't recall making a partition of any sort

And the drive doesn't show up under disk management, device manager or any thing else. The only place it shows up is in my computer.

 

[Carfax83]

It's probably one of your devices plugged in that has ability for storage.

That was a good suggestion. When you told me that, I wondered if it might have been my keyboard, since it has USB ports on it. But I disconnected the power source for the keyboard, and the (E was still there.

 

[JimmiG]

Might be a virtual optical drive from something like Daemon Tools.

Try to look it up under Disk Managemet and Device Manager.

 

[Charlie98]

My SanDisk Cruizer USB thumb drives all show up as two drives when running, never figured out why. It's a moot point, it does not affect performance or operation.

On my new build, everything plugged into the USB shows up as a storage drive of some sort, including the mouse and my wireless antenna, even if it's '0GB available.'

 

[C1]

What are its properties (right click in "My Computer")? I would inspect the registry to try to find out more what is going on. You might be able to delete it in the registry if it is a phantom.

In general, I dont like things like that (which I dont understand) lurking about. It might create issues at some point in the future in other areas/applications (eg, installing optical writing software that tries to configure to a non-existent piece of hardware).

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

My guess is that it's a virtual CD/DVD drive. Clone DVD, MagicISO, alcohol etc...could be one of those.

 

[Carfax83]

Might be a virtual optical drive from something like Daemon Tools.

Try to look it up under Disk Managemet and Device Manager.

OK, I solved it. It was a virtual optical drive, from a program called Ultra ISO that I only used once long ago. I still had it installed on my computer, and after uninstalling it, the E drive is gone.

Thanks guys. :thumbsup: