Phantom "Local disk (B)"

[Mark]

Recently, I started having a drive that does not really
exist showing up under My Computer. It says "Local disk
(B)" and has a red "?" on top of the icon for the device.
I cannot get rid of this "phantom" drive. When I double
click on the icon I get an error message that starts
with: "B:\ refers to a location that is unavailable..."

I do not have any extra partitions on my two hard drives.
I also have two DVD drives, and one floppy drive, all of
which are accounted for in My Computer. I have not
installed any new hardware recently. I do not have
anything mapped across a network.

A search in Google newsgroups found someone else a while
ago had this same problem, but noone answered that
person's post. I am hoping someone can today.

Any help now with getting rid of my "phantom" drive would
be greatly appreciated.

[Fox]

Have you recently connected a camera or flash drive of some description, as
my camera appears as drive 'b'


"Mark" > wrote in message
...
| Recently, I started having a drive that does not really
| exist showing up under My Computer. It says "Local disk
| (B)" and has a red "?" on top of the icon for the device.
| I cannot get rid of this "phantom" drive. When I double
| click on the icon I get an error message that starts
| with: "B:\ refers to a location that is unavailable..."
|
| I do not have any extra partitions on my two hard drives.
| I also have two DVD drives, and one floppy drive, all of
| which are accounted for in My Computer. I have not
| installed any new hardware recently. I do not have
| anything mapped across a network.
|
| A search in Google newsgroups found someone else a while
| ago had this same problem, but noone answered that
| person's post. I am hoping someone can today.
|
| Any help now with getting rid of my "phantom" drive would
| be greatly appreciated.

Fox,
My printer does have a memory card reader, which appears
as my G: drive though the USB port. When I attach my
camera, it comes in as the H: drive, also through USB.
Right now, they are both disconnected as I try to figure
out this problem. Thanks.
---
Mark

>-----Original Message-----
>Have you recently connected a camera or flash drive of
some description, as
>my camera appears as drive 'b'
>
>
>"Mark" > wrote in
message
...
>| Recently, I started having a drive that does not really
>| exist showing up under My Computer. It says "Local disk
>| (B)" and has a red "?" on top of the icon for the
device.
>| I cannot get rid of this "phantom" drive. When I double
>| click on the icon I get an error message that starts
>| with: "B:\ refers to a location that is unavailable..."
>|
>| I do not have any extra partitions on my two hard
drives.
>| I also have two DVD drives, and one floppy drive, all
of
>| which are accounted for in My Computer. I have not
>| installed any new hardware recently. I do not have
>| anything mapped across a network.
>|
>| A search in Google newsgroups found someone else a
while
>| ago had this same problem, but noone answered that
>| person's post. I am hoping someone can today.
>|
>| Any help now with getting rid of my "phantom" drive
would
>| be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>.
>

[Gary Tait]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 10:50:06 -0800, "Mark"
> wrote:

>Recently, I started having a drive that does not really
>exist showing up under My Computer. It says "Local disk
>(B)" and has a red "?" on top of the icon for the device.
>I cannot get rid of this "phantom" drive. When I double
>click on the icon I get an error message that starts
>with: "B:\ refers to a location that is unavailable..."
>
>I do not have any extra partitions on my two hard drives.
>I also have two DVD drives, and one floppy drive, all of
>which are accounted for in My Computer. I have not
>installed any new hardware recently. I do not have
>anything mapped across a network.
>
>A search in Google newsgroups found someone else a while
>ago had this same problem, but noone answered that
>person's post. I am hoping someone can today.
>
>Any help now with getting rid of my "phantom" drive would
>be greatly appreciated.

Do you have a floppy drive? Is it enabled/working properly? Is the
floppy controller enabled?

My system shows two floppies A and B, presumabvle so I can still use a
floppy disk when I boot from CD, which the boot sector shows up as A:(
for a win9x boot CD)