Phantom Local Disks appearing in my drive list

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Published on 2010-04-11T08:49:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 9:03 UTC
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I seem to have several phantom Local Disks mapped to different letters that are of 0 bytes in size.

Strangely, they do not show up when I view my drives through Windows Explorer. But if I open an application such as ACDSee Pro or MS Word and then go to open a file I can see all these Local Disks mapped to different letters.

This means when I plug in my external hard disk it ends up mapped to letter R instead of its usual G which messes up any programs I have pointing to it by default.

How did they get there and more importantly, how do I get rid of them?

I'm on a Window 7 Home Premium 32 bit machine.

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