Ghost BR Drives appear and can't get rid of them - means can't connect external drives

[littleben]

Hi,

Just got round to doing the recent update for win 10. It was a fairly large one I can assume due to how long it took and the privacy questions windows has been bothering me with for a few weeks before.

After updating there are now 16 extra BD-ROM Drives in 'This PC' This has meant that when use a portable HD I have to assign (A) letter to it in disc management to get it to work each time I use a different storage device - as it was the only available letter, the BR discs go down to (z).


I thought maybe I could just delete them in disc management but only one is shown there (H), the real one.
Screen shot here

Can any one explain why this has happened and how I can get rid of them all?

Any help much appreciated

 

[ss202sl]

If you put a disk in, do they all show the disk - are they all just a mapping to the single drive? Maybe you can delete the mappings

 

[littleben]

Just checked. No its just the one drive the registers a disk. I clicked several of the other drives and its says 'please insert disk', so no

 

[littleben]

Just tried another fix and it worked. Went into device manager. They were all there as 'virtual disks'. I disabled them all and they have gone. I imagine uninstalling them would do the same thing