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Bizarre local disk showing up
Hi all,
On my laptop running windows 7 ultimate I have an odd issue. Intermittently a 'y' local disk drive with a blue question Mark shows up under my computer drives under category 'other devices'. Like I say it only shows up every now and then and there is no rhyme or reason behind it. It has a zero capacity and if you click it the location is unavailable. It's not a virus because I have done various scans and nothing malicious has been picked up. I do have an iphone & USB 3.0 hard drive that I Plug in now and then but I don't think these are the culprits as it picks them up fine and is assigns drive letters without issue. Besides I haven't plugged either of these in during last few boots. In that time the mysterious local ' y' drive with accompanying blue question Mark has reared up a couple times. It's also not due to ms office 2010 (i do have this) which has been mentioned on some forums as this creates a virtual Q drive sometimes but has no blue question mark.
As far as I can tell this 'y' drive is doing the computer no harm but it is an irritating thing and I wondered if I can get rid of it at all? Looking under disk management it is never listed under here. It just shows up under 'my computer' with no option to delete or hide it as far as I can see.
Thanks, Wayne