Re: What is this unmounted FAT volume?

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:04:41 -0700

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"John" wrote:
| I answered my own question, I see (from Dell's forums)
| that Dell places diagnostic information in an unmounted
| volume...
|
| John
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >I notice in Defrag, and in Disk Manager that I have an
| >Unmounted volume with a FAT file system of 31 MB of which
| >29 MB is free. Disk Manager states that this file system
| >is 'Healthy (EISA Configuration)'
| >
| >The system is a Dell Dimension 8200 with an 80 Gig disk,
| >set up NTFS. It has never been setup for Dual Boot... I
| >installed Win2K on receipt of the machine from Dell (Dell
| >shipped it with XP...) over a year ago.
| >
| >Does anyone have any ideas what may have created this
| >volume?
| >
| >Thanks,
| >John
| >.
| >

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