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

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Do you have a printer that has a built in flash card reader? If so, it will be assigned one (or more drive letters) and if there is a flash card in them can be treated like a hard drive.

Does this happen if you boot to Safe Mode? If not then that would indicate some software on your system is causing this. If yes then it's probably a device driver that is causing it.

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My printer doesn't have a flash card reader.  So it's a negative on that.

It doesn't happen if I boot into safe mode.  So yeah, it's probably software related, 
now I just need to figure out what it is.  Could it be Partition Magic?  I'll have 
to try later.

~Thanks for all the help, I appreciate it.





On Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 9:20 am, Rich Kurtz wrote:

>Do you have a printer that has a built in flash card reader? If so, it will be assigned 

>one (or more drive letters) and if there is a flash card in them can be treated 
like 

>a hard drive.

>
Does this happen if you boot to Safe Mode? If not then that would indicate some 

>software on your system is causing this. If yes then it's probably a device driver 

>that is causing it. 

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Update: It was not Partition Magic, it was Ext2 IFS. I was using it to read an ext2 partition that I had from another computer and it turns out, that program caused the problem. After I removed it and rebooted, the 'I' drive disappeared and the drives were back to normal. One less annoyance among masses =-). Again thanks, Rich.

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Thanks for letting me know. I remember playing with ext2ifs 4-5 years ago when I was working with Linux, XP and OS/2, all on the same computer. Don't remember anything about it though :-(

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Heh, no problem. The least I could do is keep you updated since you isolated the problem in your first reply (nice!). Must have been hectic with that triple boot >=-).

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Nah, it was fun. I had another system that had 5 versions of OS/2 on it that I used for testing. I worked with OS/2 at IBM for many years and really enjoyed it.

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