Misterious drive letter Q


  1. darkmac
    Posts : 16
    Windows 7
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    Misterious drive letter Q


    I have 2 hardrives.
    First WD 500GB
    Second SAMSUNG 1TB

    On the first hdd i have 6 partitions:
    1-System Reserved (made by Windows 7)
    2-Windows 7 (letter C)
    3-Temp (letter D)
    4-SWAP (Suse Linux)
    5-ROOT (Suse Linux)
    6-HOME (Suse Linux)

    On the second hdd i have 3 partitions:
    1-Data (letter E)
    2-Multimedia (letter F)
    3-Games (letter G)

    The third device it`s a LG DVDRW (letter H)

    NOW the problem is that i see in My Computer a Local Disk (Q:) and i dont know where it came frome...
    As you can see from above configuration it should be only : C,D,E,F,G and H

    I`ve tried different methods to gain some info about that driver letter (access denied).
    Any ideea PLEASE?
    I dont want a reinstall.
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  3. theog
    Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    Do you have MS Office installed?
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  4. Dinesh
    Posts : 8,476
    Windows® 8 Pro (64-bit)
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    Go to diskmgmt.msc and see what is the mysterious drive letter.
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  6. darkmac
    Posts : 16
    Windows 7
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    there is no Q in diskmanagement...
    But i`ve found that office 2010 installed that for virtualisation of files
    Can be hidden through regedit
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  7. derekimo
    Posts : 17,322
    Win 10 Pro x64
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    darkmac said:
    there is no Q in diskmanagement...
    But i`ve found that office 2010 installed that for virtualisation of files
    Can be hidden through regedit
    Have a look at this,

    Can I hide or delete the Q drive?
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