Ghost car blocks disk access USB external?

I have a WD MyBook drive on an external USB connection. No particular reason, I can relate, he arrested recognized by my system Win7. He has worked before, but now, instead of him in the 'Computer' window, I have a completely false Ghost with a new drive letter. All readers of my "real" work correctly, but Win7 cannot open or perform any other activity on/with the ghost. It is labeled as a 'local disk '. This drive persists across reboots and it persists or not the defective MyBook is physically connected to the computer.

Maybe these two events are not related, but I am very suspicious. I can't the MyBook reconnected? Also, how can I get rid of the ghost drive? Thanks for your ideas.

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