Sims 3 Virtual Drive? Is There a Simple Way to Delete This?
cobaltspectre:
There can be no doubt that something called "Sims3CE" originated either from my game disk, or was somehow introduced in a patch or some other contribution from EA. I always have my antivirus/anti-spyware software running, and do periodic scans. If what everyone is telling me is true, then, I will be fascinated to hear EA explain the presence of this code. Anything you can add as background on this topic would be useful for when I call them, since I typically get a tech who barely knows The Sims, never plays it, and can usually only suggest reinstalling the game as a solution to any problem (which is why I came here for answers). What you folks are telling me suggests that my problem is far stranger than I could possibly have imagined.
DJKID:
Yes, what she is describing is the flash drive that comes packaged with the Collector's Edition. It is titled Sims3CE. Now reread this sentence:
Quote from: cobaltspectre on 2009 September 18, 11:05:54
Despite my marginal technical skills, it was pretty hard to miss this thing: a 1.79 GB (60.5 MB used) "removeable disk" described under My Computer as Drive I, "Sims3CE." I have no physical drive I.
No, you do not have a physical drive because it's a removable flash drive you dolt. The drive contains 2GB of free space, the 60.5 MB already on there is extra content and whatnot.
As for how to delete this... well you could try un-fucking-plugging it.
kutto:
* kutto points and laughs.
cobaltspectre:
Of course, I do have the plumbbob thumb drive (two, in fact); but, I have never so much as connected one of them to a computer. I do have external storage devices, but, the ones I actually use are at least four times as large as the novelty thumb drive that came with the game. In any event, this would not have been a mystery if I had anything connected to the computer that would explain the presence of the mystery drive.
Edit: To be more accurate, my daughter has one of the plumbbob drives, and I cannot vouch for whether or not she has ever used it on this computer; the last time I'd asked her, she was not using it, and she's at school, now, so I can't ask her if she ever used it. If, in theory, she could have started using it and, although it is not on the computer, the computer could still be detecting it somehow, that would make more sense to me than this being some bootleg issue.
Mire Krisma:
At my campus, every student gets a special "I" drive that connects to the downtown server. It supplies us with about one pointless gigabyte of storage space.
I suppose that's not the case with you. Have you tried plugging in the flash drive and using the "eject item" button on the taskbar? That sometimes does the trick.
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