several unknown disks all of a sudden (1 Viewer)

[Steve Trevour]

today I used a friend's pendrive for some transfer work. I am sure my system is free of virus, so does his computer. All of a sudden, i discovered numerous drives. previously I had just C,D,E, F, G and H. But now I could find multiple unknown drives. any idea how has this occured? And how to get rid of this?

 

[Todd Erwin]

Is the USB drive still inserted when you see this? If so, your friend may have installed a virtual optical drive program on the USB drive that your computer is reading.

 

[Steve Trevour]

no i took this screenshot after removing the drive. i have restrtedmy system some 3-4 times. and the problem isn't resolved yet. Administrative tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk management shows just the 5 drives I had been using before this incident. Can't disable the drives from here. still beyond my reach of repair..

 

[Steve Trevour]

storage.png is the current Screenshot from control panel
drive2.png is the screenshot of available drives in the file explorer

 

[DaveF]

Have you tried ejecting or unmounting those drives?

 

[Steve Trevour]

thanks for your concern DaveF. but that too didn't work

 

[Chris Strnad]

Go into device manager, uninstall the optical drive (remove drivers if it asks), then reboot.

 

[Steve Trevour]

Go into device manager, uninstall the optical drive (remove drivers if it asks), then reboot.

thanks for the reply Chris,
can you explain me the exact path for it? I can see the Device Manager, but I am unable to find the path for OPtical drive.