Question Phantom drive gone everywhere but storage disk management

[David_652]

I had a phantom drive letter H. It Turns out it was from when I incidentally added my PC as a WMP streaming media device quite some time ago. So I removed the drive letter, stopped the Windows media player network sharing service, and poof, it no longer shows up in networked devices or as a drive in my PC. But it still shows up in storage disk management as an unnamed, unallocated drive, disk 2 removable, no media.

Here are the three events associated with it from Thursday that all have the exact same timestamp. The phantom drive didn't appear, however, until today.

Upper Filters:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP" Guid="{9c205a39-1250-487d-abd7-e831c6290539}" />
<EventID>410</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-04-28T06:33:12.5664336Z" />
<EventRecordID>892</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="2176" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-PnP/Configuration</Channel>
<Computer>DESKTOP-UFFO31R</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="DeviceInstanceId">USBSTOR\Disk&amp;Ven_Generic-&amp;Prod_SD/MMC/MS_PRO&amp;Rev_1.00\20120926571200000&amp;0</Data>
<Data Name="DriverName">disk.inf</Data>
<Data Name="ClassGuid">{4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}</Data>
<Data Name="ServiceName">disk</Data>
<Data Name="LowerFilters">
</Data>
<Data Name="UpperFilters">
</Data>
<Data Name="Problem">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="Status">0x0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

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Device USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Generic-&Prod_SD/MMC/MS_PRO&Rev_1.00\20120926571200000&0 was configured.

Driver Name: disk.inf
Class Guid: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Driver Date: 06/21/2006
Driver Version: 10.0.19041.789
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Section: disk_install.NT
Driver Rank: 0xFF0006
Matching Device Id: GenDisk
Outranked Drivers: disk.inf:GenDisk:00FF2002
Device Updated: false
Parent Device: USB\VID_0BDA&PID_0153\20120926571200000
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Device USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Generic-&Prod_SD/MMC/MS_PRO&Rev_1.00\20120926571200000&0 was not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match.

 

[SkyNetRising]

That is device for USB card reader.
If you don't use your card reader and want the device gone, then you can disable it in Device Manager.
Open Disk Drives section in Device Manager, find USB Generic storage device and disable it.
It will be gone from Disk Management too.

 

[David_652]

All done but reboot. I am waiting on the backup integrity check to complete. I will reboot, and if you don't hear from me, it worked. And thank you!