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Thread ID: 54716	2005-02-20 07:20:00	How can I erase useless drive letters?	chermesh (4253)	Press F1

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326797	2005-02-20 07:20:00	Hi, I played with installing and uninstalling ramdisk software on my xp pro laptop and ended up with the following situation: 1. When I check the list of drives on my system opening "My Computer", I see what I expect, one HD, one Ramdisk, one Diskette and one Ramdisk 2. When I do "Save As" from any application, two more letter drives show up. I tried to locate the source of these drives, but failed. They are, probably, remanents of a ramdisk installation. I would like to get rid of them. I can, using tweakui hide these letters from the listing, but I would rather erase them from my system altogether. How can this be done? Ran	chermesh (4253)
326798	2005-02-20 07:26:00	Hi THe best way to remove or change these drive letter is built right into windows XP, Go to the control panel and into the admistative tools and click computer managment, then clcik on storage and select the drive you want to remove, right click and click remove partition.\ I hoped this has helped James	Googe (1833)
326799	2005-02-20 07:29:00	Go thru device manager and delete them under disk drives?? Or try device manager / view show hidden devices.. Then go to non plug and play drivers.. Some entries may have a X by them...See if they relate to the icons that appear in My computer, and delete them. Then reboot.. Can u delete the icons in My computer??	Speedy Gonzales (78)
326800	2005-07-26 13:26:00	Hi, I recommend using free KillDisk software to erase your drive. KillDisk erases the whole HDD, it is impossible to recover any data after using it. KillDisk also supports some highly secure erase algorithms such as DoD M5220 and Guttman's. After using KillDisk you should re-partition and re-format your drive to use it from scrath. Head to www.killdisk.com for more info and download.	Brona (3896)
326801	2005-07-26 22:17:00	Hi, I recommend using free KillDisk software to erase your drive. KillDisk erases the whole HDD, it is impossible to recover any data after using it. That is a bit drastic just to erase unwanted drive letters. :stare:	FoxyMX (5)
326802	2005-07-26 22:45:00	Go thru device manager and delete them under disk drives?? Or try device manager / view show hidden devices.. Then go to non plug and play drivers.. Some entries may have a X by them...See if they relate to the icons that appear in My computer, and delete them. Then reboot.. Can u delete the icons in My computer?? In my experience it's a lot more complex than that. I created a virtuel drive using Alcohol and mounted an image. When no longer required I deleted the image, but nothing would kill the drive. I was pointed to instructions on their own forums, but I must have done something wrong because it didn't work. Anyway, if the original poster looks back at this thread, I suggest do what I did and just leave it, as you may find it useful again sometime in the future.	Greg (193)
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