Ghost Hard Drives Won't Disappear.

[Squaid]

Okay so I have a problem with hard drives staying on my Windows 7 system even after unplugging the hard drives. I currently have 3 hard drives showing up that are NOT plugged in. They are on 2x - 144gb 1x 99mb. They are originally USB's but they show up as local disks (F), (H) and (Z). Does anyone know how to get rid of them?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Squaid,

How do these drives appear under Disk Management? What are the options that you get when you right click on them?

See if you can delete the volumes under Disk Management.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD

 

[Squaid]

Thanks, that was quite the simple solution for 2 out of the 3 disks. However the third one (Z) reads "Windows cannot delete the active system partition on this disk" when I try to "Delete Volume" in disk management.

I get the options:

Open
Explore...
Change drive letter and paths...
Format...
Shrink volume...
Add mirror...
Delete volume... (Error message)
Properties
Help