Re: Multiple Drive letters per partition

Gabe wrote:
"mike" <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:udj_j.3077$tF1.2744@xxxxxxxxxxx
Gabe wrote:
I have two drives 500Gb each - identical
I have multiple partitions on each for future OS's and data areas.
I just noticed that some of the partitions on the second drive have several letters assigned to them in the left column of my File managers
This system is only about 2 months old.

The primary drive (the one with my daily XP64 in the first partition ) has only one letter per partition C-D-E and F
My sole DVD player is assigned G

The secondary drive (where there is a test version of XP64 on the primary partition) has

H and H again - primary partition
F and I - on next partition Shows up as I:\ when selected
G and J - next shows up as J :\ when selected to display
H and K and K - next shows up as K:\
I and L next shows up as L:\ when selected
M - next
N - next

So there are no conflicts in the access only in the listing of these letters after the Volume name in the left column.... and the assignments are operationally sequential
These may have appeared at anytime in recent weeks - I do not use them (I use M as my sole data partition till now) and so have not paid much attention until I just decided to begin using a second data partition - and looked closer at what I had to pick from.
The only clue I have to this behavior -- is just recently I went from running exclusively from the default Admin Logon - to creating a second admin account (new name) and when i realized i lost acccess to all my settings and tweaks in the default I copied as much as i could from the default Admin folder to the new folder (not sure i got everything that would copy but most - except items that were "in use" and couldn't be overwritten) Not sure if this is the cause of this but i would like to clear this up.




randomly copying files from one user account to another is not likely
to produce a satisfactory result. Often, the registry needs to know
about such things.

It's possible to share a subdirectory and assign it a letter.

Do you know where within the account this housekeeping is done, a file or registry area that can be editied, to remove the extraneous entries

Start -> Run
enter
regedit

Under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
scroll down to the values like \DosDevices\D:

Delete all these values except the one with the real drive
letter of your Windows drive. Reboot.
Check the drive letters and correct if required in the
Windows disk management.


Uwe


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