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Phantom Drives

RedWulf
By RedWulf
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So, I've been switching some SD cards in and out, writing boot images to them. Well, The drive still appears. After I write the image it turns to ext4 format most the time and after I remove it, the drive letter shows up as occupied but inaccessible or disconnected. I can't eject or anything, its become annoying since it has taken over 3 letter. How do I get rid of these phantom drives? 

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1 minute ago, leonard_sun said:

Go into Disk Management and unmount the "Phantom Drives."

tried that after I tried ejection from file explorer, they don't show up nor are they in 3rd party tools but the letter is still being occupied

 

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            ,/        |
           /    \  \ /
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   /_______\______}\__}
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[I5-12600k | 32gb DDR5 6000 | RTX5070 | 2x1tb M.2]

 

[Ryzen 5 1600 | 16gb DDR4 3200 | GTX1030 | 4x 8tb HDD] 

 

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I've also tried restarting the PC to no success 

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[I5-12600k | 32gb DDR5 6000 | RTX5070 | 2x1tb M.2]

 

[Ryzen 5 1600 | 16gb DDR4 3200 | GTX1030 | 4x 8tb HDD] 

 

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Just now, leonard_sun said:

That sure is odd indeed.

Days like these make me love debian 

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   /_______\______}\__}
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[I5-12600k | 32gb DDR5 6000 | RTX5070 | 2x1tb M.2]

 

[Ryzen 5 1600 | 16gb DDR4 3200 | GTX1030 | 4x 8tb HDD] 

 

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2 minutes ago, leonard_sun said:

Try these.

  1. "Tools" menu
  2. "Folder options" item
  3. "View" tab
  4. Enable the "Hide empty drives in the Computer folder" checkbox
  5. "OK" button

Yeah... Linux FS doesn't have this kinds of problem. :D

I'm not bothered by the visual letters, it an issue because it keeps using up drives and technically data(though very small amounts) and I plan on using more SDs so eventually id get into double letters and thats just messy  

                     .
                   _/ V\
                  / /  /
                <<    |
                ,/    ]
              ,/      ]
            ,/        |
           /    \  \ /
          /      | | |
    ______|   __/_/| |
   /_______\______}\__}
Spoiler

[I5-12600k | 32gb DDR5 6000 | RTX5070 | 2x1tb M.2]

 

[Ryzen 5 1600 | 16gb DDR4 3200 | GTX1030 | 4x 8tb HDD] 

 

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