Remove disconnected drive windows

Might sound funny, have you tried to put the device out of the domain and back in? This as solved me some issues in the past that were similar.

Will have to wait until low use hours to try that. Will put in my calendar to try this weekend. Are profiles loading correctly? Any network connectivity issues? How about dcdiag results? No problems with any other login scripts or GPOs being applied?

You might check to see if there is high network traffic on that switch or try a different NIC on that device or server. All GPOs seem to be applied that should be. I edited my drive mapping GPO and added a new drive for my user only - Got mapped the first time I logged in. You don't say what OS you're using, but I'll throw this in anyway: what seems to have done the most towards fixing this for us is setting a File Explorer setting - View Options View tab "Launch folder windows in a separate process", then "Apply to Folders".

We rarely have issues with drive mappings now. One slight addition, I have it set to "Apply once and do not reapply". Will take that setting off. My theory on the apply once was I didn't want the drives to be deleted every time it did the background refresh - wasn't sure if it would or not.

I don't feel to bad. I've spent about 10 hours over the course of a few weeks with MS Support and they can't figure it out either. I'm having the same issue on a Windows 8. Any news on how to resolve this? Only 2 of the workstations are having the issue. Answer "Yes" and the Shared folder will open. Close it. Next, right-click the drive in My Computer and select disconnect. Ah, I hear you say, but it is still there!

Reboot and it should now be gone. You can restart Windows Explorer using Task Manager. Disconnected drives should be gone! I had a problem like this recently, where I had 8 drive letters that didn't show up anywhere, but I couldn't map any new drives of any kind to these letters. And they were using drive letters that until this problem I had "persistently" mapped to network devices. The only way I got them to release was to go into the Partition Manager control panel and individually disconnect the drive letters from the CD-ROM drives.

So far the blocking drives themselves are still in the list in Disk Manager, but hopefully they will go away with another reboot. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

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Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Networking. Sign in to vote. How can I disconnect this mapped drive? Monday, July 9, PM. Do not use e-mail address is exact form - for your security reason. Have a script on desktop containg two lines explorer. Advantage of this is that you can get to subfolder as well explorer. Tuesday, July 10, AM. Tuesday, August 19, PM. Hi Snow Critter, Have you tried with a command line to delete the mapped drive?

Wednesday, September 3, AM. Hi Snow Critter, According to your description, this situation happens when a non-administrative user attempts to reconnect to a shared network drive that the user has already used, system error 85 "Local device name already in use" may be generated. Thursday, August 21, AM. Thanks for the response! Can I add this key? Thursday, August 21, PM. Hi Snow Critter, Check the key as it is in the screenshot below, it is in the right pane: The key is related to net use session manager, if you fail to remove the Disconnected Network Drive X: , this normally because a connection that is in use by a session, in this case, you can boot your computer in safe mode to remove this, and add it again after restarting your computer in a normal mode, to boot in safe mode: 1.

Restart the computer. Saturday, August 23, PM. Ah, there it is! I put the registry key back in place with a value of zero 0. Thanks for all the help so far. I'm not ready to give up on this yet. Monday, August 25, PM. Hi Snow Critter, Try a clean boot to solve this, a clean boot is performed to start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs: 1. Log on to the computer by using an account that has administrator rights. Click OK, and then click Restart. Tuesday, August 26, AM.

Tuesday, August 26, PM. Hi Snow Critter, Because in a normal mode it may be in use by some other applications or services.