Mysterious Local Disk shows up in My Computer!

[GRagland]

When i go into "my computer" i see something called "local disk (H)" and I have no idea where i came from. Heres a pic, also in the pic is the properties menu for the mysterious drive. I have 2 hard drives, a CDROM drive, and a DVD Drive. Both the hard drives are partitioned to use maximum amount of space. A use clonecd virtual drive (but thats not the culprit because i turned that off and drive H still remained). Anyone have any ideas?

hmm... when i try to go to the pic it says bandwidth has been exceeded, but that can't be... no one goes to the files in my brinkster account. Well anyway, anyone have any ideas of where drive H could have come from?

 

[Steven the Leech]

digital camera? Printer with card reader?

 

[GRagland]

Originally posted by: Steven the Leech
digital camera? Printer with card reader?

no, anyone know somewhere that will host the pic for free?

 

[wfbberzerker]

try
http://pics.bbzzdd.com

 

[microAmp]

USB pen drive?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I had this happen to me once, I have no clue how it happened, but it was bad. I booted and I had a bunch of 2MB partitions which used up more than all the alphabeth and I got loads of errors, it also skipped letters. I already had A, C, D and E, F an G, then it went H, J, L etc etc...

I could not fix it since any partition program would just error out since it did not reconize this. Partition magic errored out, fdisk would just hang. I don't remember what I did to backup, but I had used a text based partition utility that showed the "hex" of the partitions and I wiped everything and it was fixed.

This does not really answer your question though, but I just wanted to share my experience.

By the way does it have a "local disk" icon? If it's like a CD-ROM Icon it might be some kind of virtual disc or something.

 

[MikeMike]

nero might do it

MIKE

 

[GRagland]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I had this happen to me once, I have no clue how it happened, but it was bad. I booted and I had a bunch of 2MB partitions which used up more than all the alphabeth and I got loads of errors, it also skipped letters. I already had A, C, D and E, F an G, then it went H, J, L etc etc...

I could not fix it since any partition program would just error out since it did not reconize this. Partition magic errored out, fdisk would just hang. I don't remember what I did to backup, but I had used a text based partition utility that showed the "hex" of the partitions and I wiped everything and it was fixed.

This does not really answer your question though, but I just wanted to share my experience.

By the way does it have a "local disk" icon? If it's like a CD-ROM Icon it might be some kind of virtual disc or something.

I think my problem is different because partition magic, or any other program that ive tried, WONT see drive H. Its just in "my computer" that i see local disk (H). Its as if windows is seeing the little raw segment that is left over after you partition a drive... am i making any sense?

 

[extro]

Have you installed any virtual drives, like a virtual CD/DVD?

Check your services to see if any third-party device services are running.

Run MSCONFIG and check under the Startup tab to see if anything that could be installing a virtual device is being run at boot up.

Can you identify/disable the drive in Disk Management?

 

[ronnn]

when I installed cdrwin burning program it put a virtual recorder on my menu in the same way. It used it to read images, i think.

 

[ElFenix]

what shows up in windows disk manager?

 

[Tavoc]

Yeah, like many people have said, its generated by burning programs, but is not eliminated when you uninstall them. I would like to second the call for any solid information on how to eliminate the virtual drive.

 

[ronnn]

system restore?

 

[GRagland]

I noticed the mysterious drive after i did a clean install of windows xp and installed all my programs. The burning programs i installed were clonecd and nero. There is nothing in startup.ini that could be the culprit. Thanks for the help guys, any more ideas?