F:/ refers to a location that is unavailable

[Andy]

In Windows explorer

Local Disk (F:)

F:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.

How do I get rid of this error ?

[R.Wieser]

Andy,

> How do I get rid of this error ?

You only gave us the error mesage (which is more than some give!), but have
not told us if that F:\ is a drive on your computer or not, or if you ever
had an F: drive available on your computer (and removed it perhaps).

If not, did maybe anything special happen that caused that F: drive to
appear ?

In short: Give us as much info possibly related to that drive/its sudden(?)
appearance as you can.

Also, does it appear in your "windows explorer" (file browser) window ? If
it does, does it look different there, possibly indicating a network
(remote) drive ? If so, you could try to right-click it and
disconnect/remove it.
In a command window/DOS box you could try the "net use" command.

Hope that helps,
Rudy Wieser


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[Paul]

Generally, the computer is pretty good
at keeping track of conventional storage
devices.

Where it screws up, is if you have a mapped
network drive - in that case, a defunct letter
might throw up that error, because the mapped
drive is no longer present.

Think carefully about what you did with your
Windows File Shares, and whether you ever
ticked a box that said to "connect it every
time I boot the computer". It would be
the attempts to make permanent network
mounts, that could throw up the error.

Another place of contention in the file system,
is the assignment of mapped network drives, and the
usage of USB sticks. They can "overlap" on letters,
leading to surprises. That's not your current
problem. Uwe has USBDLM for such things (sorting
it out).

All my network mounts are temporary, so
I never see your error. I don't even know how
to make a mapped drive :-) But I did use a
SUBST once, to get around a path length problem.
That's as close to adventurous as I get.

http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/subst.htm

Paul

[Andy]

F: is not a current job, but it was at one time.

The problem happened right after an abort Linux installation.

In Windows explorer, the F: icon has a question mark.

I tried chkdsk /f and chkdsk /r with no luck.

In my Linux installation, my external drive is now read only.

I can not copy or move any files to it.

Which makes it impossible for me to back up my files, images, etc.

I cannot remove it by right clicking.

I will look up how to use the net use command.

Andy

Andy

[gfre...@aol.com]

Find out which program you have that is looking for F:
Hope it is not a trojan.

[Andy]

How would I find that out ?

Doubt it is a trojan.

Have same problem in Linux and I know it is not infected.

[Andy]

Till I can get this resolved, I wrote this batch file.

It copies the file but an older version.

Where it is coming from is a mystery ?

That file is no where on my hard drive ?

:: Tahr_Pup.BAT BACKUP FILES
::
@ECHO OFF
CLS
cd\
cd j:
cd J:\root\.mozilla\seamonkey\jikt3e07.default
xcopy /y bookmarks.html E:\Linux_Files

Andy

[Nil]

On 03 Feb 2016, Paul <nos...@needed.com> wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> All my network mounts are temporary, so
> I never see your error. I don't even know how
> to make a mapped drive :-)

At its simplest, at the command line type:

NET USE [device letter, e.g. F:] [\\computername\sharename]

To release the mapped drive, something like:

NET USE F: /DELETE

Type NET HELP USE at the command line to see all options.

[gfre...@aol.com]

I suppose you could just plug in thumb drives until you got to F: ;-)

I have an F: and thumb drives start at L:

[Paul]

You have a USB card reader...

Paul

[Andy]

Not familiar with what that is.

Andy

[Andy]

Thanks Nil.

I will try it.

[Andy]

[Andy]

I got

The network connection could not be found.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2250

[Andy]

For some reason, my phantom drive has disappeared.
:-)

Thanks for all the responses.

Andy

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <XnsA5A3CAFB...@wheedledeedle.moc>, Nil

Or, in Windows Explorer, look under Tools ... (-:

(There's even the option to add an icon - as well as Disconnect - to the
toolbar; I think we had this as default at work when we had XP, where it
was actually useful, but I removed those icons as distracting from my
home system since I don't have any network drives.)
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[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <37201311-75e1-4235...@googlegroups.com>, Andy

<andrewke...@gmail.com> writes:
>On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7:25:58 PM UTC-6, Paul wrote:
>> gfre...@aol.com wrote:

[]

>> > I have an F: and thumb drives start at L:
>>
>> You have a USB card reader...
>>
>> Paul
>
>Not familiar with what that is.
>
>Andy

An external card reader - often have slots for SD cards and several
other card shapes, and often appear as several (often four) drive
letters in a row; if you click on them and there's no card in them,
something like "please insert a disc into drive ..." pops up, rather as
it did with floppies and does with CDs/DVDs when there's no disc in. (I
think you _can_ make them only appear when there's a card in, but it's
easier to do that in 7.) Such readers (even internal ones) usually
connect via USB.