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How do I get rid of non-existent hard drive (local disk Q:) that shows up on the my computer screen?

Anonymous
2010-04-20T18:22:52+00:00

original title:How do I get rid of non-existent hard drive that shows up on the my computer screen?

I have a local disk (Q:) that automatically loads onto my "Computer" folder [the folder that shows all the hard drives and removable storage devices]. The drive does not exist and when I double click on it it says "Q:\ is not accessible Access Denied". I disconnected all my external hard drives and those drives disappear from the screen by this drive still remains.  How do I get rid of it?

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-04-29T15:47:57+00:00

    I did find a third party article in which people have found a solution:

    Hide Local Disk (Q:) added by Office 2010 Beta

    I hope this helps! (you may want to

    Back up the registry first)

    Modifying REGISTRY settings incorrectly can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from booting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that any problems resulting from the configuring of REGISTRY settings can be solved. Modifications of these settings are at your own risk

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-04-27T14:19:11+00:00

    Thomaslchen,

    Are you using the MS Office 2010 Beta? If so,  Q: appears in the application virtualization.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-04-26T15:06:22+00:00

    Sorry, if I wasn't specific enough in providing enough description. There are two volumes that appear in the list. One is an "unlabeled" (aka it has no name) partition that has a 6.65 gB capacity with a healthy status. It has 100% free with no fault tolerance or overhead. The second volume is my C: Drive with a NTFS file system, that is healthy without any overhead or fault tolerance.

    In the diagram below, the only two partition it recognizes are on the same disk  (Disk 0). That disk is separated into two partitions: a 6.5 gb, Healthy (Recovery Partition); and the C: drive which also says healthy. The last drive is my CD-ROM drive.

    Local Drive Q: at the same time does not appear to be listed anywhere on the disk management screen, but it is still shown on the my computer folder with the same behaviors as discussed earlier in the thread.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-04-22T16:53:54+00:00

    No, the drive did not show up in the disk management. There is an unlabeled partition that is my recovery partition, but it has a size of 6.65 gB (compared to the 0 bytes of Local Drive Q as seen in the computer folder).

    I have a T61 lenovo thinkpad, and I know that the Drive Q was not present when I first bought the computer. It just appeared one day, so I am pretty sure that it isn't the recovery partition after thinking about it unless lenovo came up with an update which caused it to show up as 0 bytes in the computer folder. Do you have any other ideas?

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-04-20T20:25:25+00:00

    Right-click the drive and click Disconnect .

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