Mysterious local disk Q:

Posted By: Sven Groot | Oct 13th @ 5:19 AM
page 1 of 1
Comments: 8 | Views: 995
#Oct 13th @ 5:19 AM
Sven Groot
Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

For no reason that I can think up, I suddenly have a local disk Q: in Explorer. There is no hardware associated with it, it doesn't show up in Disk Manager, it's not a network drive, and everything I try to do with it results in "access denied". Yet it stubbornly persists.

 

Any idea how I can find out what it is, where it came from, and how to get rid of it?

 

EDIT: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate RTM

#Oct 13th @ 5:23 AM
Sven Groot
Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Never mind, I've figured it out. Apparently Office 2010 Click-to-Run is responsible for it. Still weird, hope the final won't have that as it'll confuse a lot of people.

#Oct 13th @ 7:49 AM
figuerres
figuerres
???

Yeah that does sound like a thing that will / might throw many folks ... I might have said start looking for a virus or a root kit or some such...  glad to hear it was nothing like that. Smiley

 

By the way I just saw the video you did on ch9 and i found one comment very interesting.

i also find many things intersting and sometimes it's hard for me to "keep on track"  in fact i would say that is my worst flaw... at times.

sooo many things, sooo little time!

 

#Oct 13th @ 9:30 AM
PerfectPhase
PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

Looks like Office 2010 might be using App-V (softgrid) under the covers then. 

#Oct 13th @ 2:27 PM
ZippyV
ZippyV
Fired Up

What's all this? What am I missing?

#Oct 18th @ 9:22 AM
BubbaHyde
BubbaHyde

Hey Sven,  I'm running XP and had the same "local drive Q:" suddenly apperar after installing Office 2010.  I used TweakUI, clicked on My Computer in the list, and selected drives.  I then "unchecked" the Q on the list.  That damn "Q" went away.  Maybe it'll help you 2.  Reguards, BubbaHyde

 

#Oct 19th @ 7:21 AM
fknight
fknight

Any idea how I can find out what it is, where it came from, and how to get rid of it?

 

It came from the Q continuum, of course.

 

#Nov 23rd @ 4:24 PM
JoA41
JoA41

Do you know if there is a similar ability in Win 7 to uncheck drives you don't want to see?  I knew where to uncheck drives in Vista, but can't find it in windows 7.  Does unchecking the drive affect the application or does Office 2010 run normally with Q?  Thanks!

page 1 of 1
Comments: 8 | Views: 995
Microsoft Communities