I had a problem with a phantom K: drive.
It wasn't displayed in device manager or disk manager, although the letter was reserved in disk manager and I couldn't use it.
Thinking this was a problem with a USB device I uninstalled all these devices, unplugged everything and restarted the computer. The devices were all rediscovered, and the K: drive didn't go away.
I had none of the DVD playing/recording software or other software others have reported causing this sort of issue.
I have a EXT2 file system driver, but that wasn't the reason either.
I think I hit the computer with a hammer exactly twice. The K: drive didn't go away.
I deleted all the entries under HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and restarted the system. The K: drive was gone. Afterward I had to re-map some USB drives but that was all.
Hope this works for you.
Stephen
It wasn't displayed in device manager or disk manager, although the letter was reserved in disk manager and I couldn't use it.
Thinking this was a problem with a USB device I uninstalled all these devices, unplugged everything and restarted the computer. The devices were all rediscovered, and the K: drive didn't go away.
I had none of the DVD playing/recording software or other software others have reported causing this sort of issue.
I have a EXT2 file system driver, but that wasn't the reason either.
I think I hit the computer with a hammer exactly twice. The K: drive didn't go away.
I deleted all the entries under HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and restarted the system. The K: drive was gone. Afterward I had to re-map some USB drives but that was all.
Hope this works for you.
Stephen
