Hard drive missing..

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alawar

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The only thing I can think of is my speakers on a USB port
Thanks again for your help, this is a great community really helps people who have very little idea... Like me!!
 
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ColEyt

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Have you got a printer attached. If so and it has the ability to read sd/tf cards then that would probably account for the removable drive being shown
 
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I never knew they would show up in disk management like that....
I would of thought Windows would filter it in some way.
 
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ColEyt

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sibun1 said:
I never knew they would show up in disk management like that....
I would of thought Windows would filter it in some way.
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The card slot on my HP shows like that. Discovered when I had a faulty hard drive, that windows was stating was a removable drive. After sorting that issue out, disc manager was still showing a further removable drive.

After unhooking all my hard drives and eventually reinstalling windows problem went away. Installed printer drivers and then noticed a couple of days later that I had a removable hard drive, that I couldn't identify showing again, assigned to letter L.

After unplugging all my usb devices, noticed it went away when I disconnected printer. Putting an sd card in the printer confirmed the issue as the removable drive now listed all the files on the sd.

Now my printers quite old, so maybe more modern print drivers get around that issue, but just thought it was worth mentioning.
 
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Its useful info.
I had just thought it would only ever show storage options in disk management, not speakers or printers etc... your thoughts on it being older USB's/Drivers would make a lot of sense.
 
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ColEyt

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sibun1 said:
Its useful info.
I had just thought it would only ever show storage options in disk management, not speakers or printers etc... your thoughts on it being older USB's/Drivers would make a lot of sense.
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Although of course an sd slot on a printer is still a storage option, even if no one is likely to use it as such. I presume an external card reader would show the same.
 
Martinr36

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ColEyt said:
Although of course an sd slot on a printer is still a storage option, even if no one is likely to use it as such. I presume an external card reader would show the same.
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yes an external card reader shows the same without a card in it
 
NoddyPirate

NoddyPirate

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Here is my USB card reader with three currenlty empty slots for three different types of cards. Shows as three separate drives F, G and H....

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