Re: Is it possible to "assimilate" an external HD?
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Rock wrote:
KF Daddy wrote:
Friend of mine has a Dell computer at home and he hooked up an
external Maxtor 40GB USB drive to it for backup purposes. He says
somehow the PC has taken the 40GB and added it to the internal HD so
he now shows one large 70 odd GB drive instead of two separate drives
in My Computer. When he moves the drive to his laptop or his PC at
work it's treated as an external drive with it's own drive letter, etc.
The home PC is not now and never has been connected to the internet.
Running XP SP2. Don't know any other specifics on the computer but I
can get them if needed.
Never heard of such a thing happening. Is it possible for a computer
to accidentally or on purpose get confused in this way and combine the
two drives into one? If so, is there a way to undo it? If it's not
possible what could be causing the erroneous indications?
TIA
KFD
You can "mount" a volume into an empty NTFS folder on the host volume.
The volume then appears as part of the directory structure of the
hosting volume. The mounted volume is represented by a drive icon
rather than a folder in the host directory structure.
To do this you would first create an empty folder on the host volume,
then go to disk management, right click on the volume to be mounted,
choose Change drive letter and paths, add, then type in the path to the
empty NTFS target folder.
I don't know if this can be done with external drives.
You're welcome.
--
Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
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