A Random Drive has Appeared

[FantsE]

A random drive has suddenly appeared with the drive letter of Z:. It's completely identical to my SSD in terms of size, however I haven't partitioned my SSD at all, both represent the full size of it, but the folders within the two drives are not the same. The new Z: drive also doesn't show up in drive management. Does anyone know what this is? Photos below.

The folders in the Z: drive are empty.

 

[ahnilated]

Sounds to me like you mapped your drive to itself.

 

[Guest]

That looks like it may be the contents of your temp folder in C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Local\Temp. It could possibly have gotten shared or added as a network shortcut. Right-clicking on the drive should yield more information about it.

 

[FantsE]

That looks like it may be the contents of your temp folder in C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Local\Temp. It could possibly have gotten shared or added as a network shortcut. Right-clicking on the drive should yield more information about it.

@timinator
Right clicking it brings up the same menu as though it's any other drive.

@ahnilated: It doesn't appear under the network, and I can't find any option to unmap it. If it did somehow get mapped to, how would I remove it?

 

[Guest]

Are you using Remote Desktop features of Windows 7?

 

[Guest]

I found this thread on another site. Take a look and see if any of those solutions help. http://superuser.com/questions/317928/phantom-hard-drive-after-deploying-latest-windows-7-image-from-wds

 

[FantsE]

It seems as though my temp files were mapped in some strange fashion as described in the link timinator provided. Thanks!