I seem to have several phantom Local Disks mapped to different letters that are of 0 bytes in size.
Strangely, they do not show up when I view my drives through Windows Explorer. But if I open an application such as ACDSee Pro or Microsoft Word and then go to open a file I can see all these Local Disks mapped to different letters.
This means when I plug in my external hard disk it ends up mapped to letter R instead of its usual G which messes up any programs I have pointing to it by default.
How did they get there and more importantly, how do I get rid of them?
I'm on a Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit machine.
OK! So I was incorrect in my post. It happens after a LONG day and a LONGER Night. Fresh eyes the next morning, AND Three Phantom Drives forced me to dig in and SOLVE this issue.
Best Answer
Although not fixing the problem here is a bit more info on it...
Office 2010 Beta - Phantom Q drive (only if you have the phantom Q drive)
http://technicalmeltdown.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/office-2010-beta-adds-local-disk-q-to-the-system/ http://technicalmeltdown.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/hide-local-disk-q-added-by-office-2010-beta/
Can use Tweak UI for XP to get rid of phantom drives
Long forum discussion on the problem but mainly refers to XP users http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/467043-problems-phantom-drive-letters.html