Mass Storage USB Device ghosted

Hey there,


I'm aware that this question may be a duplicate of possibly several other questions but please hear me out:


Since about 10 months now I've got a device called "Mass Storage USB Device" mapped to the drive letter "E" that just won't disappear. I've tried searching Google and several Microsoft Forums along with multiple "solutions" now but none of them seem to work properly.


The device is always displayed in the device manager and sometimes (especially when waking up from hibernation) randomly starts to connect and disconnect multiple times until I manually disable it in the device manager.

Whenever the device shows up in the explorer attempting to open it just prompts me with "inserting a media into E".


The drive is listed with the following information:

• Device Type: Disk drives
• Manufacturer: (Standart disk drives)
• Location: on USB Mass Storage Device
• [ Disk information under "Volumes" is completely dashed ]
• Driver Provider: Microsoft
• Driver Date: 21.06.06
• Driver Version: 10.0.15063.0 //<-- How did the Windows build version get here btw
• Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows
• Driver Name: disk.inf
• [ I'm going to omit the "Details" page for now ]

Event log lists the following:

1. Device started (disk)
2. Device configured (disk.inf)
3. Device migrated

( Possibly relevant ):

• "Device USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_Mass&Prod_Storage_Device&Rev__\125D20140310&0 was configured."
• "Driver Name: disk.inf
  Class Guid: {4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"

So far I tried disabling and uninstalling the device in the device manager.

Several suggested fixes involving ghost device removal tools.

Several tools and guides that said they would take care of such things.


I honestly can't list all ways or specifics about the stuff I tried (and then reverted using restore points) because there're many over this longer period of time. [ As the disconnect-reconnect symptom seemed to disappear from time to time I almost forgot about that problem too. ]


If someone could help me pinpoint the source I would be very grateful.


Regards,


Mark



PS: Here are some of my system specs. (If sth. is missing just ask)

• OS: Windows 10 Home (b15063 as of now)
• CPU: AMD Fx8350 (8x 4GHz)
• MB: ASUS M5A97 Evo R2.0
• GPU: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX970
• Drives: 2x HDD WD Blue 1TB
• Mouse: Roccat Tyon
• KB: Razer Blackwidow Chroma
• HS: Razer Kraken Pro 7.1 USB
• Controller (although disconnected most of the time): Original XBox 360 Controller

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