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Group: Forum Members Last Login: 5/14/2008 4:46:53 PM Posts: 2, Visits: 7 |
| | I have constantly 4 removable drives listed in Windows Explorer, although I have no USB or whatsoever plugged in. If I plug-in a USB stick a fifth drive appears which is the actual stick. How can I remove these 4 drives from the list? Thanks for any help! |
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| | Since you don't say anything about what your hardware configuration really is, its hard to give any advice. Does your computer have a built in multi-card reader for an SD/CF card and several others? Typically, these 4 removable drives will show up if you have one of the multi card devices installed. If you do, they are in fact USB and that would accout for the 4 mysterious removable drives showing up. If you do NOT have one of the multi-card readers installed, something is makeing the OS think that you do. Give us your actual hardware configuration and maybe someone can actually help.
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Group: Forum Members Last Login: 5/14/2008 4:46:53 PM Posts: 2, Visits: 7 |
| | Thanks a lot! This answers my questions. The drives are the multicard readers. I did not have these in my old PC (never use them either) and did not think they would show up even if there is no card plugged in. |
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| Yep, they will show up as available, removable drives just like your floppy disk drive does (if you have one) The drive letters show whether there is a card in them or not. It IS kind of interesting however in that I have a Roswill mutlicard reader in my build below, and in addition to the stadard support for the SD/CF/MMC etc cards, it also has a standard usb port on the device that does NOT show an available drive letter until I actually plug a device into it. The others show the 4 available drives all the time.
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Mother Board Intel E6320 Processor, oc'd to 2.4ghz 4gb DDR2 800mhz G.skill Dual channel ram MSI GeForce GX8600GT Twin Turbo Video Aspire Xdiscover case with lots of fans Antec 650 Watt PSU, 250 gb SATA HD, 2 Samsung DVD writers
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