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It comes out of thin air! It has no size, no owner I cannot change owner nor security permissions, it has no hardware tab on the properties pane and I cannot see it in disk management console. I cannot open it nor get any information about it. This is the output of the powershell script: __GENUS : 2 __CLASS : Win32_Volume __SUPERCLASS : CIM_StorageVolume __DYNASTY : CIM_ManagedSystemElement __RELPATH : Win32_Volume.DeviceID="\\\\?\\Volume{cdc5925c-0e db-11df-a765-001d60dd8569}\\" __PROPERTY_COUNT : 44 __DERIVATION : {CIM_StorageVolume, CIM_StorageExtent, CIM_Logic alDevice, CIM_LogicalElement...} __SERVER : ZS-PC __NAMESPACE : root\cimv2 __PATH : \\ZS-PC\root\cimv2:Win32_Volume.DeviceID="\\\\?\ \Volume{cdc5925c-0edb-11df-a765-001d60dd8569}\\" Access : Automount : True Availability : BlockSize : BootVolume : Capacity : Caption : Q:\ Compressed : ConfigManagerErrorCode : ConfigManagerUserConfig : CreationClassName : Description : DeviceID : \\?\Volume{cdc5925c-0edb-11df-a765-001d60dd8569} \ DirtyBitSet : DriveLetter : Q: DriveType : 3 ErrorCleared : ErrorDescription : ErrorMethodology : FileSystem : FreeSpace : IndexingEnabled : InstallDate : Label : LastErrorCode : MaximumFileNameLength : Name : Q:\ NumberOfBlocks : PageFilePresent : PNPDeviceID : PowerManagementCapabilities : PowerManagementSupported : Purpose : QuotasEnabled : QuotasIncomplete : QuotasRebuilding : SerialNumber : Status : StatusInfo : SupportsDiskQuotas : SupportsFileBasedCompression : SystemCreationClassName : SystemName : ZS-PC SystemVolume :

I don't know why, but I have a partition appearing at every bootup, called Q:\. Using mountvol.exe I can delete it, but it reappears. Mountvol /D works, /P doesn't. Do you know how to find that which volume id is connected to which hardware? BTW, before you ask, it's not a card reader, it's a fixed disk device, which I cannot see in diskmgmt.msc.

I just solved the issue by googling hard for any SPLC driver and finally I found one for x64 XP/Vista which is not for the same printer but it works. So it was a straightforward solution, I am happy I could solve it without scripting. But yes, an AutoIT script would have been a good idea.

I need to setup a printer on 64-bit XP workstations where the printer does not have 64-bit drivers. It is a Sharp AR-M165 laser copier which doesn't have any standard print processor, just it's proprietary SPLC raster language, for which I cannot find any 64-bit driver. Maybe there are newer Sharp SPLC printers for which there is 64-bit driver available, but I couldn't find any. If you know any way to make an SPLC printer work under XP 64-bit, I would be happy to use it, but if not, I need to look for alternatives. One alternative I figured out is that the workstations can print to a PDF file and save that file in a specific folder on the server. The server (Win2003) can then automatically watch the folder for any change and print the copied files locally in 32-bit environment. I found a shareware called watchDirectory, which does that, but I would like to use small and free programs. My idea is that if I can find a command line watch-dir program, I could use it to call a bat file with %1 filename. The bat file would print from acrobat reader and delete the file when completed. Or delete the file when it's a day old. So I am looking a watch-dir program which is small and free (something from ss64.com for example), and a batch file or vbs which can print and delete a PDF file. Or a simple vbs file which does all that. Or a way to use an SPLC printer under XP 64-bit.