I found a New Local Disk Drive?

[zekramcross]

Ok so I was looking through my computer and found this



I'm pretty much sure I didn't intall a new HD so what going on here?

 

[Orbital Shark]

Can you access it? Is there anything on it?

Try clicking Start and right-click 'Computer' and select Manage. What shows up under 'Drive Management'?

 

[mickey megabyte]

microsoft have recently been giving away free hard drvies - maybe you were a lucky winner?

seriously though, how big is it? if it's 100MB, then it's probably your reserved boot partition.

 

[zekramcross]

Can you access it? Is there anything on it?

Try clicking Start and right-click 'Computer' and select Manage. What shows up under 'Drive Management'?

Nope all i got was this

 

[Orbital Shark]

That's really bizarr...

You should be able to right-click the 9mb unalocated space and delete it. Then right-click the main drive and 'Extend' it by those 9mb.

I've not known Windows do that without user input

 

[zekramcross]

microsoft have recently been giving away free hard drvies - maybe you were a lucky winner?

seriously though, how big is it? if it's 100MB, then it's probably your reserved boot partition.

This is how big it is...



This is getting a lil weird now...:huh:

 

[xarden]

I bet you a cheeseburger you have Office 2010 installed.

 

[zekramcross]

That's really bizarr...

You should be able to right-click the 9mb unalocated space and delete it. Then right-click the main drive and 'Extend' it by those 9mb.

I've not known Windows do that without user input

It doesn't give me an option to delete it or do anything with it...

 

[zekramcross]

I bet you a cheeseburger you have Office 2010 installed.

Yes I have it installed on my machine why is it bad to do it?

 

[xarden]

I had the same problem here

Sounds like you have Office 2010 beta installed....
it uses the click-to-run technology which creates the Q: drive.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I bet you a cheeseburger you have Office 2010 installed.

So do I but don't have a silly drive appear

 

[zekramcross]

Should i uninstall it? Or leave like it is and live with the Q drive?

 

[xarden]

I dont know how it works, or why it does it... all I know is that Im due a cheeseburger.
But really, no idea how or why, or if it only happen(s||ed) with the Beta version.
And thats about the extent of my knowledge on this, sorry.

 

[zekramcross]

No don't be sorry I was just curious on how it got there and now I know that its not a big deal or problem.

Also, how would you like that cheeseburger? with or without extra cheese?

 

[mickey megabyte]

can i haz it?

 

[xarden]

Mickey can haz cheezburgerz. Im on a diet anyway.
By his link, you'll see that its quite a common annoyance. Theres a bunch of stuff on the net about it too.

What Im now curious about, is what would happen if you map Q: to a netshare, then install Office 2010?
Would it overwrite the map? Or find a spare drive?
What would happen if you map every available letter to a (or the same) netshare, then install Office 2010? Or insert a USB key?
I think I need another test machine...

 

[kword88]

that is correct. the drive is created by office 2010. or at least the beta version. and you cant get rid of it (i called tech support).

 

[xarden]

that is correct. the drive is created by office 2010. or at least the beta version. and you cant get rid of it (i called tech support).

Not without 3rd party tools...
Check the last post of the thread I linked to before.