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I have a computer that has a driver labeled removable drive but it's not connected to anything. It's like it remained after a thumb drive was plugged in and than removed. It's very strange. I can't figure out how to get rid of it. When you double click on it you get prompted to insert a disk, kind of like what happens when you double click the A: drive and it's empty. Any suggestions?
Does the machine have a built in card reader?
I have an HP machine that has a 4 card reader device and it reserves 4 driver letters like you described.
Nope, it doesn't. However, he does have a Kodak camera that he occasionally plugs into his PC so maybe that's it. I'll check into this.
Have a look in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management (or Start>Run>diskmgmt.msc), and tell us what it reports the status of the drive as in there please. Posting a screenshot would be ideal.
Will do.
Here are some pics of both My Computer so you can see how that looks (the I: drive is the only local drive that doesn't have something connected to the PC for it to be referencing) and Disk Management.
Have a look in the Notificvation Area, and see if there is an icon for "Safely remove hardware". If there is, double-click on it and try removing the I: drive.
Where is the notification area? Are you referring to the icon by the clock in the system tray?
Yes indeed.
That did it. It was an Epson Stylus Storage USB device. I chose to stop it and the I: drive disappeared. Sometimes I wonder why I can't think of something so simple. I always have to make it harder than it is...
Well it didn't come to me immediately either ;)
I'm glad that you got it all sorted out :)