New disk of 0 bytes

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Bliepo

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Hello everyone,

I recently installed Windows 7 Proffesional (HP upgrade program) and did a clean install. It works just fine, but yesterday I notices I suddenly had a new harddrive Q:. It has 0 bytes of space and it does not show up in the disk manager. I have one physical harddisk, with 6 partitions:

1. Reserved by system (100 MB NTFS)
2. C: (111.25 GB NTFS, primary partition, contains windows 7)
3. D: (111.34 GB NTFS, primary partition

Then, I have 3 linux paritions (I have included these to be complete, but Windows cannot read or write to these):

4. / (4.61 GB, ext4 primary partition)
5. /home (4.62 GB, ext4 primary partition)
6. swap (980MB, primary partition)

I believe the Q: disk showed up after I used Windows back-up to restore an image I had made earlier that day (so I restored ALL files). During this, my C: drive had somehow changed to D: and my D: drive to E:, although they changed back as soon as the back-up had succeeded.

Does anyone know why this disk suddenly showed up and how to remove it (except for reinstalling windows)?

Technical specifications:
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Model: HP EliteBook 8530w
OS: Windows 7 Professional, 32 bits
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo T9600, 2.80GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
Harddisk: 250GB, 7200rpm
 
The problem arised after I restored Windows using a WindowsImageBackup, so doing a restore isn't going to help. Besides, it is an almost fresh install (less than 1 week old). I wil have a look in the BIOS tomorrow.
 
if it is just a fresh restore just reformat it will take bout 45 -60 mins is saves the hastle, plus i wud not not use microsoft backup its not as gud as other software
 
By accident I discovered Q: is a virtual disk used for Microsoft Click & Run (used to install Office 2010 Beta). I will just leave it as it is. I don't mind an extra harddisk, as long as it has a use.
 
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