"Mysterious" Drives

Bob:
I am sorry about not responding sooner but it was grandson's graduation time. Naturally that took priority over everything.
I ran the tests you described. After typing in "diskmgmt.msc" In response I see the three partitions used in this computer. Namely (with my assigned names)

C
Data(D)
WorkArea(E)

This agrees with what I see in WINDOWS EXPLORER.

As you asked I then went back to RUN and typed in "cmd" followed by "net use" and saw
New condition will be remembered
There are no new entries in the list.

Looking at WINDOWS EXPLORER, after all this, still present were the
Drive(D)
DVD Drive(F)
DVD RW Drive(R)

The problem Drives Drive(F) abd Drive(D) were there.

Any further suggestions?

David

 

Yes!

TonyT is correct about Virtual CD drives that is what we are going to try to find out.

Lets correct the drive labels

Put a readable CD in your DVD Drive. Windows Cd or music whatever, but not blank

Start-Run
type
cmd
in the command window that opens

type
cd\
hit enter

type
dir \windows
enter

if you get a dos directory of windows here this confirms it is your bootable windows C drive so

type
label
enter

if it is not labeled C then
put in C
hit enter

Now
d:
enter

type
cd\

enter
dir

Are these the files that agree with windows as your D drive?

Type
Label
enter

if this is Your D drive and the label don't agree then put D as the label and hit enter.

Now

type
e:

type
dir

Are these the files that agree with windows as your E drive?

if this is Your E drive and the label don't agree then put E as the label and hit enter.

Now for the below watch for CD drive access

type
F:

type
dir

Are these the files that agree with windows as your F drive or do you get a directory of you CD?

If it is empty

try copying something to it

copy c:\ntdetect.com
hit enter

it will work or report Read only disk

let me know the results "details" of all of this "

D/L http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdinfo.asp

Run it select copy to clipboard and paste back to us.

Bob

 

Bobert:

I followed your instructions.
The C, D, and E partition information was as Windows Explorer indicated.

When it came to the F drive after typing "dir" I got the following message
"The device is not ready "
The result of executing
copy c:\ntdetect.com
was
c:\ntdetect.com
The system cannot find the file specified
0 file(s) copied

When I ran the Karen program the only way Here is the result of pasting the clipboard copy.

Karen's Drive Info v2.3.1
http://www.karenware.com/

Computer:
User:
Time: 5/23/2007 5:14:54 PM

Drive A:\ C:\ D:\ E:\ F:\ R:\ All Fixed All CD/DVD All Drives
Network Name
Local Path A:\ C:\ D:\ E:\ F:\ R:\
Drive Type Removable Fixed Fixed Fixed CD/DVD CD/DVD
Status Not Ready Ready Ready Ready Not Ready Ready
Drive Size 41940668416 24058908672 93998465024 324556800 159998042112 324556800 160322598912
Space Used 34695467008 2068414464 5181632512 324556800 41945513984 324556800 42270070784
Used % 0.83 0.09 0.06 1 0.26 1 0.26
Space Free 7245201408 21990494208 88816832512 0 118052528128 0 118052528128
Free % 0.17 0.91 0.94 0 0.74 0 0.74
Quotas Supported Supported Supported
Quota State Disabled Disabled Disabled Unavailable
Quota Free
Quota Limit
Quota Used
Quota %
Quota Warning
Cluster Size 4096 4096 4096 2048
Volume Name C DATA WORKAREA WORKS8
Volume S/N [002C-9DF9] [18BF-9901] [CF99-66F9] [4164-FBAA]
File System NTFS NTFS NTFS CDFS
Drive Compressed No No No No
File Compression Supported Supported Supported
Long Filenames Supported Supported Supported Supported
Max Filename 255 chars 255 chars 255 chars 221 chars
Encryption Supported Supported Supported
Unicode Supported Supported Supported

Now what coach?

Remember there is a "folder" in the C partition with the name Drive(D)
which I cannot remove. This is the real problem. I can understand where Drive(F) is a virtual drive....but it is trying to get rid of that Drive(D) in C that bugs me.

David

David

 

Hi David

Sorry so late getting back. Had a problem with my email and my ISP!

Any way reread entire thread.

You never said what you get if you just dbl click this D folder. Does it open?

If so does it have files? While open can you drag or copy a file there?

Give me the exact name under the Icon.

Bob

 

Bobert:
You had e-mail problem....it's always something isn't it?
Anyway, the folder's designation is "Drive(D) ". This is exactly how it appears in WINDOWS EXPLORER with the same indent as all the other folders in this C drive.
Double clicking on it brings up a blank right hand side window. I had cleaned out all the files in preparation of getting rid of this "folder ".

Yes, you can drag a file into this folder. I currently dragged one file into this folder. I left that one file there.

Ya go anything else in mind to identify why I can't delete this folder?

David

 

Try taking "Ownership" of that folder first and then see if you can delete it.

How to take ownership of a file or folder.

Past Experience

 

Bobert:

That did it. I took ownership of the folder and got rid of it. In so doing, of course I learned a bit more about this furshlugenheh WINDOWS XP system.
One more question. Before deleting the folder I went back to WINDOWS EXPLORER-> TOOLS->FOLDER OPTIONS->VIEW and put the checkmark back in
"Use simple file sharing" Is this the right way to do things?

Or should I go back over the entire process and make Administrator have ownership of this OS?

In other words how should I leave this system? Is my ownership OK to work with?

And many, many thanks for this one. I hope others have derived some knowledge from this interchange.

David

David

 

As I said in the other thread:

Leave the other stuff alone.

Good luck with the furshlugenheh system!