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Drive letter
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Drive letter
Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 9:33 am
Posted by bob
(7 messages posted)
I have a question about drive letters;
Ihave an E:Drive on my PC that doesn't refer to anything and nothing is connected
to it.
How do I remove this drive letter.
regards,
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re: Drive letter
Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 1:33 pm
Posted by Michael
(2800 messages posted)
Does this drive letter get allocated if you boot into DOS?
On Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 9:33 am, bob wrote:
>I have a question about drive letters;
>Ihave an E:Drive on my PC that doesn't refer to anything and nothing is connected
>to it.
>How do I remove this drive letter.
> regards,
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re: Drive letter
Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 1:52 pm
Posted by bob
(7 messages posted)
On Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 1:33 pm, Michael wrote:
>Does this drive letter get allocated if you boot into DOS?
This is what I see;
>If you only see the message Drive X is using an MS-DOS compatibility mode file system
on one drive, that drive is using an MS-DOS compatibility (real-mode) driver, which
may reduce that drive’s performance. Contact your hardware manufacturer to see if
an updated driver is available for your drive. If not, the drive’s performance may
be less than optimal, but you can still use it.
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re: Drive letter
Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 4:25 pm
Posted by Michael
(2800 messages posted)
That doesn't answer my question, and I have no idea what you mean by saying that
you can 'see' the text that you wrote.
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re: Drive letter
Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 5:09 pm
Posted by bob
(7 messages posted)
No,does not get allocated.
"D" is my Cd-Rom-DVD
"G" is my CD Writer
"E" is there but nothing is allocated to it.
When I click on the "+"sign next to it,the "+" sign goes away.
On Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 1:52 pm, bob wrote:
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re: Drive letter
Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 5:23 pm
Posted by bob
(7 messages posted)
Settings>Control Panel>System>Performance
In the "white" box it says,
Drive E is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system.
When I click on that message and click "details"it says,
If you only see the message Drive X is using an MS-DOS compatibility mode file system
on one drive, that drive is using an MS-DOS compatibility (real-mode) driver, which
may reduce that drive’s performance. Contact your hardware manufacturer to see if
an updated driver is available for your drive. If not, the drive’s performance may
be less than optimal, but you can still use it.
"Drive X" means my "Drive E"
Regards,
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re: Drive letter
Friday, September 6, 2002 at 6:57 am
Posted by Bill m
(1 messages posted)
Did you ever solve the drive letter problem?
I have a similar problem and could use some help.
Bill
On Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 9:33 am, bob wrote:
>I have a question about drive letters;
>Ihave an E:Drive on my PC that doesn't refer to anything and nothing is connected
>to it.
>How do I remove this drive letter.
> regards,
>
>
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re: Drive letter
Friday, September 6, 2002 at 1:44 pm
Posted by bob
(7 messages posted)
no
On Friday, September 6, 2002 at 6:57 am, Bill m wrote:
>Did you ever solve the drive letter problem?
>I have a similar problem and could use some help.
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>Bill
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re: Its simple!?
Tuesday, October 1, 2002 at 7:56 pm
Posted by Andrew Johns
(1 messages posted)
I had a similar problem, an easy way to fix it is-
Open start>run>then type in "sysedit" click ok>it should open the System Configuration
Editor,select the window "AUTOEXEC.BAT" and delete the line containing the text "MSCDEX"
The line will look something like the following.
LH C:\Windows\Command\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000
go file>save and reboot your computer and the problem should be solved. :)
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re: Its simple!?
Friday, October 4, 2002 at 11:37 am
Posted by Richard
(1 messages posted)
I don't have such a line but still the same problem as Bob...
Richard
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re: Drive letter
Friday, October 11, 2002 at 1:51 am
Posted by Pete
(1 messages posted)
Tweakui lets you hide drive letters, you can get it here
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui
I think it only hides the drive for explorer, but it's better than nothing.
On Saturday, June 22, 2002 at 9:33 am, bob wrote:
>I have a question about drive letters;
>Ihave an E:Drive on my PC that doesn't refer to anything and nothing is connected
>to it.
>How do I remove this drive letter.
> regards,
>
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re: Drive letter
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 7:06 am
Posted by Wouter
(1 messages posted)
I have had a similar problem: an unwanted E-drive. I could even copy files to it.
According to FDISK, there was no E-drive. Several partition analysis programs I ran
either crashed or made no mention of the E-drive.
I finally discovered that the E-drive was pointing to my hard drive (in addition
to the legal C and D-drives, that between them took up the entire hard drive)
I did this with My Computer/ Properties/ Device manager tab, and then properties
for the "disk drive" drivers. I couldn't change drive letters there, so I updated
the driver (one of the options in the window), to some generic driver.
The next time I booted the unwanted E-drive was gone!!
So far, everything still seems to be working fine..
Hope this helps...
Wouter
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