Mystery disk Q:


  1. Victek
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    Mystery disk Q:


    Don't know when this showed up, but I have a disk entry in the Computer folder - assigned Q: - which doesn't exist. There is no physical drive or partition and it doesn't appear in Disk Management. Right clicking on Q: and selecting properties says the drive capacity is zero bytes. Any idea what's going on? Can/should the phantom drive be removed?
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  3. zigzag3143
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    Victek said:
    Don't know when this showed up, but I have a disk entry in the Computer folder - assigned Q: - which doesn't exist. There is no physical drive or partition and it doesn't appear in Disk Management. Right clicking on Q: and selecting properties says the drive capacity is zero bytes. Any idea what's going on? Can/should the phantom drive be removed?
    Have you ever had a USB stick plugged in?

    Or a ram disk?

    If it offends you sure. Check the modify date to see when it was added.


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  4. logicearth
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    Microsoft Office 2010....when using the streaming Virtual Application version.
    At least it does also use a drive labeled "Q"
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  6. derekimo
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    logicearth said:
    Microsoft Office 2010....when using the streaming Virtual Application version.
    At least it does also use a drive labeled "Q"

    Yep, that's it.

    Office 2010 Drive Q
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  7. Victek
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    Thanks to Derikimo and Logicearth for the replies. I did install the Office 2010 beta on two machines and sure enough they both have a Q: drive now, so that is certainly what is going on.
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  8. derekimo
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    You're Welcome, at least your mystery is solved. :)
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  10. surething86
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    Great! Now I know what has created mine also but the question still remains. How do you if at all get rid of it?
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  11. logicearth
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    surething86 said:
    How do you if at all get rid of it?
    Uninstall the streaming version of Office 2010. Oh just forget about it...
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