How to remove Non-Existent hard drive

**Caila** · 21-01-2011

I am running Windows 7 operating system on my machine and this system shows the driver which is in fact not there. When I boot up my machine then it shows Q drive I know is not there, When I click on it then it shows that it is not accessible and access to the same is denied. I just disconnected all the external drives which gets updated in the My Computer but this driver does not disappears. Can somebody tell me that how can I get rid of Non-Existent hard drive on my windows 7 machine?

**windows_user** · 21-01-2011

I have seen the similar problem on my machine when I was having MS Office 2010 Beta installed on my Windows 7 machine. If even your machine has it installed on it then you should remove it as Q: appears in the application virtualization. I suggest you to uninstall the Office 2010 beta version which seems to be the reason for this issue.

**Elieis** · 22-01-2011

I have a perfect solution for you which starts with the opening the Registry Editor by going to the Start -> Run and then type, regedit. Go to the following registry.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Now click on Edit -> New -> DWORD.
Value Name: NoDrives
Value Data (Decimal): 65536

Now click on OK and close the registry editor and you are done.

**Brexton** · 22-01-2011

I have gone through all the steps that you have mentioned but I guess somewhere I have gone wrong due to which it might not be working properly for me. Actually I didn’t got an option to disconnect when I am right clicking in the drive. Can you guys tell me that what is happening on my machine?

**Luis234** · 22-01-2011

Here I have given you some commands that you need to type which will solve your problem. First of go to the command prompt, You must be knowing the procedure to open the command prompt and then type

Code:

subst
    net use

If Q: drive is appearing in an output from the first one then enter:

Code:

 subst q: /d

And if Q: drive is appearing in an output from the second one then enter:

Code:

   net use q: /d

If this does not help you then I suggest you to right click on the Q drive from the My Computer and then go to its Properties and then check that what it shows.