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I have a new windoz 7 computer, a couple of new sandisk cruzer 16bg flash drives. I removed the flash drives a couple of times without doing the "eject" thing. I never had a problem with your flashdrives on my xp machines. I know I was a bad boy, I just pulled the usb flash drive out. When I go to my computer folder it shows me my hard drives and its shows 5 Devices with Removable Storage ....one of which is the DVD RW Drive and 4 Removable Disk  which are or were times when I plugged in my usb flash drive. They show 0 bytes, nothing is in any of the "Removable Disk" instances and I cannot remove them. I tried to delete, cut and I tried to eject but the Removable Disk icon stays there. How can I get rid of these safely, I tried rebooting a couple of times, they show up even without any usb devices plugged in. Thanks in advance Scott

I had this same problem.  It turns out to be easy to resolve:Open the Windows 7 "Start" Menu,  on the right shoose computer, in the new window that opens choose System Properties from the choices across the top of the window, now on the left side of the window choose Device Manager.  In Device Manager expand the "Disk Drives" entry.  You should see a listing of your hard disk drives and you'll also see "removable disk drives" with some additional idnetifying information.  Select the offending entry and then right click and select "Uninstall" click "Okay" and the entry will be gone.  Just be sure you're not uninstalling one of your hard disks.  That's all there is to it. To prevent this issue in the future always "eject" the SD drives/sticks before you remove them. I hope this helps.

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