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Phantom raw drive of size 0 appears only in Windows Explorer
Hi.
I have converted my laptop's Windows XP into a virtual machine for VMWare. Don't know if it was the cause but ever since I have a phantom V: drive that appears only in Windows Explorer. It looks like a Raw drive but its size is zero byte! It doesn't appear in the Storage management MMC snap-in. It doesn't appear either when I type "subst" on the command line. It also has a red question mark on it. When I want to change, say, the CDROM drive letter from the Disk Manager MMC snap-in, the letter V doesn't appear in the list of possible letters for the drive. Does anybody know how I could get rid of that drive? BTW how are drive letters assigned and from where can they be observed? Do they appear in the registry? Thanks in advance. -- Vince C. |
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Phantom raw drive of size 0 appears only in Windows Explorer
There are several programs that can create virtual drives. Nero, Daemon
Tools, and Virtual CD are just a few. Check System Properties-Hardware Tab-Device Manager button. See if you have anything listed under SCSI & Raid Controllers it may point to which program has created this. -- Xandros "Vince C." wrote in message ... Hi. I have converted my laptop's Windows XP into a virtual machine for VMWare. Don't know if it was the cause but ever since I have a phantom V: drive that appears only in Windows Explorer. It looks like a Raw drive but its size is zero byte! It doesn't appear in the Storage management MMC snap-in. It doesn't appear either when I type "subst" on the command line. It also has a red question mark on it. When I want to change, say, the CDROM drive letter from the Disk Manager MMC snap-in, the letter V doesn't appear in the list of possible letters for the drive. Does anybody know how I could get rid of that drive? BTW how are drive letters assigned and from where can they be observed? Do they appear in the registry? Thanks in advance. -- Vince C. |
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Phantom raw drive of size 0 appears only in Windows Explorer
Xandros wrote:
There are several programs that can create virtual drives. Nero, Daemon Tools, and Virtual CD are just a few. Check System Properties-Hardware Tab-Device Manager button. See if you have anything listed under SCSI & Raid Controllers it may point to which program has created this. Thanks for your hints. I indeed have a hidden device, vmscsi, which probably comes from VMWare conversion (VMWare uses virtual SCSI devices by default and if I remember correctly I converted my virtual machine hard disk from SCSI to IDE). I'll try removing it and see... -- Vince C. |
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Phantom raw drive of size 0 appears only in Windows Explorer
Xandros wrote:
There are several programs that can create virtual drives. Nero, Daemon Tools, and Virtual CD are just a few. Check System Properties-Hardware Tab-Device Manager button. See if you have anything listed under SCSI & Raid Controllers it may point to which program has created this. Vince C. wrote: Thanks for your hints. I indeed have a hidden device, vmscsi, which probably comes from VMWare conversion (VMWare uses virtual SCSI devices by default and if I remember correctly I converted my virtual machine hard disk from SCSI to IDE). Removing vmscsi didn't get rid of the phantom drive. Besides I have uninstalled vmware converter and all its components. Is there really no way to check what driver/component/stuff/whatever that drive is attached to or relates to? -- Vince C. |
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Phantom raw drive of size 0 appears only in Windows Explorer
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sample scripts don't format the data in a useful manner but I hope these are useful enough. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr....mspx?mfr=true http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr....mspx?mfr=true http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr....mspx?mfr=true http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr....mspx?mfr=true http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr....mspx?mfr=true http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr....mspx?mfr=true http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr....mspx?mfr=true "Vince C." wrote in message ... Hi. I have converted my laptop's Windows XP into a virtual machine for VMWare. Don't know if it was the cause but ever since I have a phantom V: drive that appears only in Windows Explorer. It looks like a Raw drive but its size is zero byte! It doesn't appear in the Storage management MMC snap-in. It doesn't appear either when I type "subst" on the command line. It also has a red question mark on it. When I want to change, say, the CDROM drive letter from the Disk Manager MMC snap-in, the letter V doesn't appear in the list of possible letters for the drive. Does anybody know how I could get rid of that drive? BTW how are drive letters assigned and from where can they be observed? Do they appear in the registry? Thanks in advance. -- Vince C. |
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