Solved Items showing on My Computer but do not exist

[kodiak]

Hi there.

When I click on my computer, besides my drive letters it shows, in the Other tab, two local disks that do not exist.

How can I delete them?

Regards,

 

[ash30000]

Hi
Try going into admin tools, computer management, disk management and see if you can delete the non existing drivers there
Ashley

 

[kodiak]

Hi
Try going into admin tools, computer management, disk management and see if you can delete the non existing drivers there
Ashley

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Already tried that. Those items do not show there...


kodiak

 

[armyslowrdr]

Maybe these are some sort of usb hub icons ? If so there's a setting to hide unpopulated devices under organize I believe.

 

[kodiak]

Maybe these are some sort of usb hub icons ? If so there's a setting to hide unpopulated devices under organize I believe.

No. There is nothing there...

 

[Trinty]

Hi there.

When I click on my computer, besides my drive letters it shows, in the Other tab, two local disks that do not exist.

How can I delete them?

Regards,

Welcome to SF , kodiak.

If you know something more about computer that can help you.
I had same problems but with Floppy . I dont have floppy but I see it in my computer. Try Disk Management or restart computer and open BIOS. Maybe you can there see that devices. If you found disable it and maybe fix your problem.

If you dont know how to do it ..... I dont know anything other for this problem.
Wait for other members.

Trinty.

 

[seavixen32]

Have you connected a camera recently?

If so, you need to install the camera drivers too.

Failing that, you might want to run a virus scan.

 

[kodiak]

Have you connected a camera recently?

If so, you need to install the camera drivers too.

No.
No camera.

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bits

 

[seavixen32]

Try a virus scan. Many of us use Malwarebytes.

Malwarebytes : Malwarebytes Anti-Malware PRO removes malware including viruses, spyware, worms and trojans, plus it protects your computer

 

[StalkeR]

I don't think that this is result of virus. Can you post screenshot from Disk Management ?
As sevixen said above, I think that it may be result of unsuccessful installation.

 

[kodiak]

I don't think that this is result of virus. Can you post screenshot from Disk Management ?
As sevixen said above, I think that it may be result of unsuccessful installation.

Everything is ok. The 25 GB partition is the ASUS recovery and the 15,63 and 3,72 GB are from my Ubuntu installation.

I believe this problem appeared when I was playing making partition on my USB flash drive...

 

[Trinty]

Everything is ok. The 25 GB partition is the ASUS recovery and the 15,63 and 3,72 GB are from my Ubuntu installation.

I believe this problem appeared when I was playing making partition on my USB flash drive...

That can be problem.
Win7 partition and ASUS recovery partition but Ubuntu....
Maybe you cant see these partitions because (maybe) that partition use other format system and Win7 cant read this......

That can be your problem.

Trinty.

 

[kodiak]

Everything is ok. The 25 GB partition is the ASUS recovery and the 15,63 and 3,72 GB are from my Ubuntu installation.

I believe this problem appeared when I was playing making partition on my USB flash drive...

That can be problem.
Win7 partition and ASUS recovery partition but Ubuntu....
Maybe you cant see these partitions because (maybe) that partition use other format system and Win7 cant read this......

That can be your problem.

Trinty.

Used the same USB flash and the same program to partition it. Restarted and now its all OK.


Thanks for all the help

 

[F5ing]

Something does look odd about your screenshot, though. Is that 4 primary partitions + extended?

 

[kodiak]

Is that 4 primary partitions + extended?

How can I see that? They are all on the same hdd...

 

[lehnerus2000]

Indeed

Something does look odd about your screenshot, though. Is that 4 primary partitions + extended?

It looks like it to me too.

How can I see that? They are all on the same hdd...

Click on picture for animation.

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[kodiak]

Something does look odd about your screenshot, though. Is that 4 primary partitions + extended?

It looks like it to me too.

How can I see that? They are all on the same hdd...

Click on picture for animation.

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1 - Asus recovery partition
2 - Ubuntu installation
3 - Ubuntu persistence
4 - c: | Windows 7 Ultimate x64

All of these are on the same hdd

 

[lehnerus2000]

Not what we meant

1 - Asus recovery partition
2 - Ubuntu installation
3 - Ubuntu persistence
4 - c: | Windows 7 Ultimate x64

All of these are on the same hdd

That's fair enough.
However your picture shows 5 partitions on that HDD.

You can have 4 Primary Partitions on the same HDD, if you only want a maximum of 4 partitions.
If you need/want more than 4 partitions, you can only have 3 Primary Partitions + extra Extended Partition(s).

The total data storage space of a PC hard disk can be divided into at most four primary partitions, or alternatively three primary partitions and an extended partition. These partitions are described by 16-byte entries that constitute the Partition Table, located in the master boot record.

Disk partitioning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Since your HDD has 5 partitions, it shouldn't be able to have 4 Primary Partitions.
Something strange is happening.

What is the 3.72 GB partition?
Is your all of your data backed up?

If you have backed up your data AND there is nothing on the 3.72 GB partition, try deleting it.

Alternatively, you could try to create another partition after "Data G:" and copy the data from the 3.72 GB partition to it and then delete the original 3.72 GB partition.

Another option, wait until one of the HDD experts (on this forum) reads this thread.

 

[gilliganfitzger]

I had this same problem and while reading your thread it occurred to me that I have a program on my machine (PowerISO) that defaults to creating (1) virtual drive.

I opened the PowerISO preferences, disabled the virtual drive and checked Windows Explorer to see the results. The non-existent CD-ROM drive that had been haunting explorer was gone!

Hope this helps anyone looking for answers.

 

[Snick]

Just read this thread!

Prior post is correct, you cannot have 4 partitions & extended, you can have 4 partitions, or 3 partitions & extended!

I have dual boot, Linux Lite and Win7, Linux Lite & win10.

Fire up you Linux distro, you should be able to access everything, and open it on your drive. You can copy, paste, add, delete, anything from there. Windows cannot open Linux ext3, ext4, etc. formatted partitions.

Local disk is remainder from inserting USB Flash, xD card, Compact Flash, SD/MMC, Memory Stick, etc. If you restart your computer and they are not inserted, those should disappear.