Absent hard drive low on space?

[elfergos]

I recently had a hard drive that had been corrupted, I took it out but forgot to go through disc management. The drive still shows up as present and windows has allocated it some arbitrary amount of space (despite it not being there) I have tried to disable it in disc management but I have no options for it other than "help" which takes you to the online help desk. I keep getting windows messages flashing up telling me that the drive is low on space.

Anyway I can remove it?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

When you remove a drive there is no requirement to do it through the Disk Management applet.

If a non-OS drive is removed, the system (and that includes Windows) will simply not detect it so it won't even be shown in Disk Management any more.

The drive you are seeing in Disk Management is not the drive you removed I assure you. It may have the same drive letter as the one you removed but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the same drive - - indeed it can't be in this case.

 

[USAFRet]

I recently had a hard drive that had been corrupted, I took it out but forgot to go through disc management. The drive still shows up as present and windows has allocated it some arbitrary amount of space (despite it not being there) I have tried to disable it in disc management but I have no options for it other than "help" which takes you to the online help desk. I keep getting windows messages flashing up telling me that the drive is low on space.

Anyway I can remove it?

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Is this Win 10?
And this happened right after the April 1803 update?

This is almost certainly a System partition, that was mistakenly given a drive letter.
Remove that drive letter thusly: https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/153261-fix-windows-10-1803-update-new-full-drive-creation