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deleting a drive?

post #1 of 6
9/28/03 at 12:39pm
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i have a laptop running win2k with an external hard drive. until recently, the external drive was designated as drive e: and i have a few programs pointing to it. today the system decided i needed a new drive and created an e: drive labelled 'removable disk', and changed the designation of my external drive to f:. can anyone tell me how i can delete the newly created drive? i have not added to or changed my system in any way. i have tried going to the command prompt and removing the drive from there, but i get a message saying there is no disk in the drive.

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steven
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post #2 of 6
9/28/03 at 4:50pm
Well, have you tried putting a non-existent disk in the non-existent drive? That should fix the problem.

Actually, I don't know how you can get rid of something that doesn't exist, but you might try to rename it to "F" and then rename your external back to "E". Then again, you may run into the non-existent disk problem.
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post #3 of 6
9/28/03 at 5:23pm
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lol, thanks marquisdarquis. i tried renaming the drive, and you guessed the result. i am beginning to think the e: must stand for ether drive. maybe i'll try selling it on e-bay.
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post #4 of 6
9/28/03 at 7:02pm

Re: deleting a drive?

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Originally posted by thenoser
i have a laptop running win2k with an external hard drive. until recently, the external drive was designated as drive e: and i have a few programs pointing to it. today the system decided i needed a new drive and created an e: drive labelled 'removable disk', and changed the designation of my external drive to f:. can anyone tell me how i can delete the newly created drive? i have not added to or changed my system in any way. i have tried going to the command prompt and removing the drive from there, but i get a message saying there is no disk in the drive.

thanks,
steven
Do you have auto-update on? TURN THAT OFF (if you do). Sounds like you got a driver update that either found a media card-reader for the first time (or updated itself and reset the drive letter).

The fix is SIMPLE and easy.

RIGHT-CLICK on My Computer
select MANAGE
click the DISK MANAGEMENT item under Storage
RIGHT-CLICK on the drive E: (the non-existent one)
Select CHANGE DRIVE LETTERS and give it another letter
RIGHT-CLICK on the F: (formerly E and do the same, change to E:
Click OK to all the warnings and prompts, then everything should be fine.

-myrkat
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post #5 of 6
9/28/03 at 7:42pm
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thanks a bunch ( ) myrkat. that corrected my problem. please add 192 votes for 'i think he is the $h!t' option on the 'what do you really think about myrkat' poll - should bring you up to an even 3000.

steven
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post #6 of 6
9/29/03 at 10:48am

mykrat rules

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