Vista Home creates removable at startup drives when none exist and will not work my mapped drive

Hello

I'm trying to fix and the problem I am having with my Vista Home.  I got this machine running for two years with the same program that requires a G: drive.

All of a sudden when I start the machine there are some removable drives created (F, I, M) and my G drive has a big X on this subject.  I create my G drive with a .bat file and when it is run, it says Invalid G drive.

I can get my G working disk by clicking on one of the removable drives and choose safely remove.  After that I can click on my drive and it comes back.

Anyone has any idea why it is?  And what I do about it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

JRCPDXOR

Hi JRCPDXOR,

There is a possibility that this computer can contain some infections malware or virus causing the abduction drives created at startup.
First of all, I would say that you remove the external hard drive from the computer and then scan the computer for any infection and remove.

How to get rid of malware or viruses
http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistasecurity/thread/ba80504b-61f1-4D71-960f-b561798b7b42

After the scan log drive G and check.

Go back with the results!

A red 'X' appears in the icon for a mapped in Windows Vista, network drive, even if you access the drive successfully

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/938062

I hope this helps!

Halima S - Microsoft technical support.
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