More Than One Letter Assigned to One Partition! Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 11:19 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by JerTheRipper (1 messages posted) Before: Partition 1: NTFS WinXP Partition 2: HFS+ OSX Partition 3: Ext3 Linux Partition 4: Linux Swap I was messing around yesterday and read somewhere about an IFS extension that recognizes Ext2/3 partitions. This is useful to me because I'm trying to get Linux to recognize my wireless card and it's a pain copying everything to USB key in Windows then copying it back to the other partition after a reboot. So I installed the extension, and saw that it recognized all 3 partitions, which I wasn't expecting because the second was HFS+. I assigned them all drive letters (X,Y, and Z, for HFS+, Ext3, and Swap respectively). Here's a Screenshot of the IFS Drive Setting screen. I went over to My Computer and saw that all three were there. I opened up the Y: drive and everything was working fine. Then I went to open up the X: drive and it didn't work (which I was expecting) and it asked me if I wanted to format. I decided that I did, since I didn't want the HFS+ partition anymore. I set it to NTFS and let it run. I now had 4 partitions: C: (NTFS), X: (NTFS), Y: (Ext3), and Z: (Linux Swap). At some point in time I had to reboot for some reason. I went into my computer and saw 5 partitions; The 4 that are above and an F: partition that linked to the same place as the X: partition. Essentially I have 2 drive letters assigned to the same drive. I went into IFS Settings to disable the X: partition, and it wasn't there anymore (similar to the screenshot above), then I went into disc management to see if it was there and it isn't. I then deleted all three partitions in disc management and combined them into one NTFS partition (which leaves me with 2 actual partitions and 3 perceived partitions: C:, F:, and X:; F: and X: are still the same). Now I'm stuck. Here's some more important screenshots: Disk Management My Computer F: Details My Computer X: Details Responses to this message: re: More Than One Letter Assigned to One Partition! (Steve B: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 1:21 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] More Than One Letter Assigned to One Partition! (JerTheRipper: Wed, Feb 28, 2007, 11:19 am) re: More Than One Letter Assigned to One Partition! (Steve B: Wed, Feb 28, 2007, 1:21 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum