I have a brand new clean install of Windows 10 Pro, I had recently installed Office 2019 from an ISO which was downloaded to the download folder, I installed from it's current location and all went well, activated product etc. Next time I went into "My PC" I saw my C drive (SSD), my D drive (extra HDD). E drive (optical drive), then there was an F drive with the Office logo on it, so the ISO created a virtual drive upon installation. So I had right clicked on the F drive and clicked eject to see what would happen and the drive disappeared, HOWEVER when I put in a USB thumb drive it designates it as G drive still, so somewhere Windows is still seeing this F drive but it shows NOWHERE?? How do I get rid of this phantom F drive? I tried one thing I found online and did something in the CMD prompt called mountvol. but that did nothing. Any help would be appreciated.
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The WindowsForum thread discusses a user’s issue with a phantom F drive appearing after installing Office 2019 on a fresh Windows 10 Pro system. The user initially thought the drive was a virtual drive created by mounting the Office ISO, but even after ejecting the ISO, the F drive remained, and new devices received a G designation, indicating residual references. Responses suggest that the drive letter assignment may be stored in the registry and recommend using Disk Management or editing registry entries to fully remove or reassign the drive letter, although the user notes that the drive doesn't appear in Disk Management.
The WindowsForum thread discusses a user’s issue with a phantom F drive appearing after installing Office 2019 on a fresh Windows 10 Pro system. The user initially thought the drive was a virtual drive created by mounting the Office ISO, but even after ejecting the ISO, the F drive remained, and new devices received a G designation, indicating residual references. Responses suggest that the drive letter assignment may be stored in the registry and recommend using Disk Management or editing registry entries to fully remove or reassign the drive letter, although the user notes that the drive doesn't appear in Disk Management.
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Ah you didn’t read my whole post. I did that and the “Drive” disappeared but the F drive is stored in Windows somewhere because any new device hooked up gets a G designation . How do I totally get rid of that F drive??
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They typically reuse the same letter unless you mounted two at the same time. Then you'd likely need to clean the mount points from the registry.
You could also simply go into Disk Management and change the drive letter. They are just logical assignments so it doesn't really matter what letter is assigned.
You could also simply go into Disk Management and change the drive letter. They are just logical assignments so it doesn't really matter what letter is assigned.
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