Removable Disk drive icon not disappearing.

ash_scotland88 · 6 Jan 2011 at 14:55

I have two icons for removable disk drives that seem to refuse to disappear.
Any suggestions?

Philtor · 6 Jan 2011 at 15:12

Go to folder options, then the view tab and look for Hide empty drives in the Computer folder and select it. Sorted

ash_scotland88 · 6 Jan 2011 at 15:46

tick makes it ghost, unticking turns it solid.

Philtor · 6 Jan 2011 at 15:57

That is very bizarre. Can you try rebuilding the icon cache? Here's how

ash_scotland88 · 6 Jan 2011 at 17:00

Hasnt worked, but just got thinking, it could be that my monitor has couple of memory card slots.
Off to try and see if I can get something to fit!

edit, appears to be them! i dont have something that fits into the CF reader but one of the removable drives has shown up

TWiNKLeT0Es · 6 Jan 2011 at 23:39

I assume you have "Show hidden files and folders" Enabled in View Tab?
This will keep them shown as a ghost drive.

Alternatively you can remove there drive letters from within Disk Management.

Just re-enable if you ever need them again.

ash_scotland88 · 7 Jan 2011 at 12:05

Aye, in the mean time I've disabled that option (was about to type unenabled =p)

How do you go around removing them? I thought it was uninstall, but that just brings them back on the next start up.

Sp00n · 7 Jan 2011 at 12:51

Remove its drive letter from disk management.

TWiNKLeT0Es · 7 Jan 2011 at 16:36

Click Start > Run. In the Run Command type diskmgmt.msc and click OK.

Next find the drive in question and right click and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths"

Next select "Remove" click OK.

It should then be gone. Just give it a drive letter if you wish to ever use it again.

Or simply remove the connection to the PC if it has a separate connection?