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Scott M.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:18 am    Post subject: Multiple Drive Letters - same drive? Reply with quote
I have a Maxtor 6Y120L0 SCSI Disk Device using a WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2
IDE SCSI CONTROLLER. The weird thing is that the drive is the second physical
drive and uses drive letter F:. However, when I go into Explorer or Disk
Defragmentor, there is also a drive letter G: with the same volume name and
same contents. What happens though, is when I add data to the F: drive, then
both drives become dirty and on a reboot, both go through chkdsk?????

This is driving me crazy...I've move all the data off the drive and
formatted it to see if the problem goes away. What is causing this behavior?

Thanks!
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Andrew E.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:26 am    Post subject: RE: Multiple Drive Letters - same drive? Reply with quote
Try going to run,type:cmd In cmd type:DiskPart In DiskPart type:list disk
then type:list volume All will show.I'd say you had another hd connected
when you installed xp,giving 0 drive the letter F:,unfortuntly the only way
to fix is to reinstall xp to get the default C:

"Scott M." wrote:

Quote:
I have a Maxtor 6Y120L0 SCSI Disk Device using a WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2
IDE SCSI CONTROLLER. The weird thing is that the drive is the second physical
drive and uses drive letter F:. However, when I go into Explorer or Disk
Defragmentor, there is also a drive letter G: with the same volume name and
same contents. What happens though, is when I add data to the F: drive, then
both drives become dirty and on a reboot, both go through chkdsk?????

This is driving me crazy...I've move all the data off the drive and
formatted it to see if the problem goes away. What is causing this behavior?

Thanks!
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Scott M.
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:26 pm    Post subject: RE: Multiple Drive Letters - same drive? Reply with quote
Andrew,

Thanks for the reply. The problem is not trying to make the F: drive the C:
drive. The problem is that drive G: appears from nowhere. I did notice when
running disk part that the F: drive is flagged as Simple/Dynamic?

What I'm trying to find out is how do I get rid of the G: drive...it doesn't
exist?

Thanks,

Scott M.



"Andrew E." wrote:

Quote:
Try going to run,type:cmd In cmd type:DiskPart In DiskPart type:list disk
then type:list volume All will show.I'd say you had another hd connected
when you installed xp,giving 0 drive the letter F:,unfortuntly the only way
to fix is to reinstall xp to get the default C:

"Scott M." wrote:

I have a Maxtor 6Y120L0 SCSI Disk Device using a WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2
IDE SCSI CONTROLLER. The weird thing is that the drive is the second physical
drive and uses drive letter F:. However, when I go into Explorer or Disk
Defragmentor, there is also a drive letter G: with the same volume name and
same contents. What happens though, is when I add data to the F: drive, then
both drives become dirty and on a reboot, both go through chkdsk?????

This is driving me crazy...I've move all the data off the drive and
formatted it to see if the problem goes away. What is causing this behavior?

Thanks!
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Dixonian69
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:08 am    Post subject: RE: Multiple Drive Letters - same drive? Reply with quote
I'm not familiar with "Dynamic" drives? Although I know you can convert baic
to dynamic and vice verse.

Maybe helpful to repost with "Dynamic vs Basic Disk" as title.
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Dennis S.
I''m from Illinois. I hope I helped you. Good Luck.


"Scott M." wrote:

Quote:
I have a Maxtor 6Y120L0 SCSI Disk Device using a WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2
IDE SCSI CONTROLLER. The weird thing is that the drive is the second physical
drive and uses drive letter F:. However, when I go into Explorer or Disk
Defragmentor, there is also a drive letter G: with the same volume name and
same contents. What happens though, is when I add data to the F: drive, then
both drives become dirty and on a reboot, both go through chkdsk?????

This is driving me crazy...I've move all the data off the drive and
formatted it to see if the problem goes away. What is causing this behavior?

Thanks!
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Pavel A.
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:27 pm    Post subject: RE: Multiple Drive Letters - same drive? Reply with quote
"Scott M." wrote:
Quote:
I have a Maxtor 6Y120L0 SCSI Disk Device using a WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2
IDE SCSI CONTROLLER. The weird thing is that the drive is the second physical
drive and uses drive letter F:. However, when I go into Explorer or Disk
Defragmentor, there is also a drive letter G: with the same volume name and
same contents. What happens though, is when I add data to the F: drive, then
both drives become dirty and on a reboot, both go through chkdsk?????

This is driving me crazy...I've move all the data off the drive and
formatted it to see if the problem goes away. What is causing this behavior?


A volume can have several letters assigned to it, this is normal.
Check in Computer management / Disk management .

--PA
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