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Thread ID: 39186	2003-10-29 19:40:00	Mystery drive appeared ... 'W:' ???	oggy (1250)	Press F1

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187677	2003-10-29 19:40:00	Using Windows Explorer for something last night and I noticed following all my listed drives (c: thru to h:) there appeared a 'w:' not once but twice. Couldn't access the drive and properties showed no capacity available and didn't indicate anything useful. They don't have the normal icon you associate with drives but had something that looked like one of the normal desktop icons available thru Windows. The only thing I can think of is that about 2 years ago I had an additional hard drive installed (by a pro) and perhaps this w: thing is part of the imaging process for copying old c: to new c: Thoroughly ashamed if it's been there for two years without me noticing though. Anyone have any other ideas?	oggy (1250)
187678	2003-10-29 19:51:00	Hi oggy. Have you been using drive emulation software like Virtual CD or imaging or backing up any of you partitions lately or perhaps a memory stick/micro drive of some sort? Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
187679	2003-10-29 21:30:00	I did buy an external CD writer (which shows as H:) about 3 months back and I guess the kids have copied the odd complete CD probably using the option to copy the whole CD to the HDD before burning it, which I guess is a bit like an image process. Thats really all I've done involving drives.	oggy (1250)
187680	2003-10-29 22:25:00	I have noticed this on heaps of PC's and usually after installing I.E. 5.5 SP2. They will come and go though. Usually just a refresh of the page makes them dissappear.	CYaBro (73)
187681	2003-10-30 01:03:00	Problem solved. Spotted another post here on the same subject indicating 'InCD' software can cause this problem. 'InCD' came bundled with my CD burner. Cheers!	oggy (1250)
187682	2003-10-30 01:23:00	It should look like I normal CD drive in My Computer then but its a virtual drive. Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
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