Mystery Drive (Q:)

Hello All,

I was hoping someone here might be able to help me out with this mystery. Recently i have had a hard drive show up on my system and have no idea where it came from. It's identified as Local Disk Q: when i click on computer in start menu or open Explorer with Windows+E command. I cant actually access the drive and it has 0 space available/used. I haven't installed any programs very recently or made any changes other than general maintenance. it just seems to have showed up for no reason. i do have a good knowledge of computer but by no means am i an expert so any ideas will be appreciated. let me know if any more info is needed, and thx in advance.

No i haven't installed daemon tools on this system, although i do use the program on others. it's really weird because i haven't installed anything recently except for the Office 2010 beta. it was the home and business version. i cant see how that could have done it. but here is a capture of Disk Management. It dosen't show up there though. Also a capture of My Computer where it does show up. i hope these screen grabs are good. i honestly never uploaded any here before.

what happens when you take out the USB drive. does the Q: go away?

When i Right click the drive it just gives me the standard options like Expand,share,copy,format, and properties. but i cant open the drive. it says that it is not accessible. I clicked on format just for the heck of it and it says i don't have permission. Also, i did try shutting down the USB drive and no difference. here is a grab of the properties window.

I bet you have a USB or network printer with a sd card slot.

Mystery solved?

Nope, the only thing hooked to this computer is a USB Hard Drive. It's an older computer mainly used for web surfing. it dosent have a card reader.