Strange Phantom Local Disks appearing in my drive list...

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Published on 2010-04-11T08:49:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 8:53 UTC
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Win7 Home Prem 32 bit

I seem to have several phantom Local Disks mapped to different letters, they 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 please??

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