Removing Drive H on Windows 7 - Phantom Drive

[PaulS1950]

"Phantom Drive" "H"

I believe I may have removed a thumb drive or maybe a USB hard disk drive without unmounting it. I have a drive "H" that I can't get rid of.
I am running Win 7, intel quad core.
Is there any way to "remove" the drive?

Paul

 

[jhae2.718]

This may apply: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/82994-drive-letter-add-change-remove-windows-7-a.html

(Disclaimer: it's been a long time since I've seriously used Windows.)

 

[AlephZero]

Try opening Windows explorer, right-click the drive letter that shouldn't be there, and select "eject".

Or you could try re-connecting the USB drive and disconnecting it properly.

If Windows has somehow decided H: is a permanently mounted drive, that won't work, so try the solution in #2.

 

[PaulS1950]

I have tried right clicking and ejecting the drive but it doesn't work.
When I put the thumb drive in it assigns a new drive letter to it.
I will try the manual renoval in registry editor.

Thanks,
Paul

 

[PaulS1950]

Ok, I deleted it in regedit and it disappeared from the registry until I logged back on.
I did it again and then restarted the computer but it came back.
I did find out it was formed when my wife disconnected our Kodak printer to upgrade the drivers on her laptop. I hav another drive associated with the printer now and drive H is just a persistany name.

I am thinking I will have to disconnect the printer to remove both drives and then reinstall the printer.
The Kodak printer has a flash drive in it so it connects as a drive on the computer as well as a printer/scanner.

Thanks,
Paul