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| 37792 | 2002-03-04 04:40:00 | I have two hard drives, 8g and 40g. The 40g is partitioned into 3 drives. I have recently completed a clean install of Windows 98. Everything runs great, well almost. During the installation of Windows an extra drive was added automatically by Windows. This extra drive is the 8g hard drive. The old drive for the 8g hard drive was D. This original drive D is still recognised by Windows, but there is nothing there. How do I get rid of this 'ghost' drive? Added notes: Right clicking on the D drive results in D:\ not accessible. A device attached to the system is not working. Device Manager does not list D drive on either hard disk. The programm 'Letter Assigner' will not function with the 'ghost' drive. My old programm 'PartitionIt' will not install with this fault |
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| 37793 | 2002-03-04 10:16:00 | ron do the other two partitions show up? the d drive isn't your cdrom, is it? (have to ask, you never know) what happens if you disconnect the 8gb and reboot, is the d drive still there as it was? are the sl/master jumpers okay on the drives? robo. |
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| 37794 | 2002-03-07 04:50:00 | Rob Thankyou for your response 1)The other partitions show up fine in 'My Computer' 2)The cdrom is not my D drive 3)I disconnected my 8g dive. The result was that the 'ghost' drive vanished and of course likewise the 8g drive. On reconnection All the drives came back PLUS the 'ghost' D drive. 4)As far as the slave and master connections go I'm not 100% sure but I think that they are OK. I will try and check this out later against the PC World August 2001 issue I cant help but think that Windows registry is at fault somewhere Ron |
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