How to permanently remove a phantom drive?

Hi I have a phantom "E" USB disk drive and I did everything try to remove it but not working. I even went to device manager and uninstall it and on reboot windows 8.1 installed it back. I even went to an old backup image and still its there. The best I could was to disable it in device manager and the drive icon is gone from my pc or my computer.

I was wondering can anyone tell me how to permanently remove it or uninstall it so it won't come back? Thanks in advance for your help.

 

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-drive-letters-windows-7.htm

 

Its not drive letter change. Its a non-existence drive that will not be uninstalled or removed. Even deleting c partitient and used a old image, the drive is there..

Just do not get it why is this stuburn to get rid of it.

 

When you right-click on the volume in Disk Management, is there an option to remove the volume letter?

 

Try to use this methode...

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/remove-old-drivers-after-upgrading-to-new-hardware/
or use Device Remover

http://lifehacker.com/5254403/device-remover-is-an-absurdly-powerful-device-manager

 

You are right...I didn't noticed taleblou's signature. So maybe those articles can be helpful?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com...mgrshownonpresentdevices?forum=w8itprogeneral
http://superuser.com/questions/689624/cant-find-non-present-devices-on-windows-8-1

 

Thanks for the reply. I got the phantom usb drive, because by mistake during a reboot I connected a USB stick to my pc and when it went to windows, the USB drive was not installed. SO I removed it and got stuck with a phantom drive.

I was so ~snipped~ that I deleted everything (partitions and drives) and formatted and went back to linux for now.