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Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist.
Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 8:00 pm
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Posted by zleilndka (4 messages posted)


I'm not sure what is going on.  Partition Magic does not read the 'I' drive that 
shows up in "My Computer," nor does "Computer Management" from the control panel. 
 
When I format the unallocated drive, an 'E' (I set it to 'E') drive appears, and 
the 'I' drive is then linked to the 'E' drive--meaning the 'I' drive contains the 
partitioned space in the 'E' drive.  I can access files (from one partition, on one 
hardrive) using both the 'E' and 'I' drive.  When I completely remove the unallocated 
drive, the 'I' drive associates itself to the C drive so...  whatever is in the C 
drive, is also appears in the 'I' drive.  Some how the 'I' becomes somewhat of a 
'shortcut' to random drive letters.

Not sure if that made sense to any of you, it's kind of a hard problem to explain 
in the first place >.<.  Probably not a very common problem.

Pictures of what is happening:
http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ssjd2.png
http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wierdxf4.png



Responses to this message:
*re: Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist. (Rich Kurtz: Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 10:20 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist. (zleilndka: Sat, Mar 10, 2007, 8:00 pm)
-re: Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist. (Rich Kurtz: Sun, Mar 11, 2007, 10:20 am)
-re: Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist. (zleilndka: Mon, Mar 12, 2007, 10:10 am)
-re: Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist. (zleilndka: Mon, Mar 12, 2007, 12:45 pm)
-re: Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist. (Rich Kurtz: Mon, Mar 12, 2007, 1:29 pm)
-re: Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist. (zleilndka: Mon, Mar 12, 2007, 5:39 pm)
*re: Windows reading a drive that doesn't even exist. (Rich Kurtz: Mon, Mar 12, 2007, 7:03 pm)
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