partition appears two times in windows explorer (XP)

Hi.

I have one partition mapped to TWO drive letters within the windows
explorer: d: and e:

I tried via the "computer management" - "drive management" <<< sorry I
don't know the exact english terms for it, so with this tool (inside
mmc) where you see your partitions and you can attach them to drive
letters: There I only saw d: attached to this partition. But e: was
also NOT available for another partition as a new drive-letter.

Then I tried Acronis Disk Directors Suite and Partition Magic with
exactly the same success:
Drive e: was blocked (was not free), but I could not free it within
these tools.

Now I need help, because I would like to free the letter e: (for
another partition).

How do I do?

Are there some ways to delete some registry keys to make the twice
mounted drive e: disappear within windows explorer?
Are there some other tools that might help me out here?
Are there some command-line tools (like mount/umount)?

Thanks a lot for any hint or help in advance!!!


Greetings,

quickhelp


P.S.: What caused this mess was the following:
BEFORE I had drive d: mapped to /dev/hda6
and drive e: was mapped to /dev/hda7

Then I booted from a cd and created there a new partition /dev/hda6
(linux swap partition) (so that the above mentioned hda6 became hda7
AND the above hda7 became hda8!).
Then I rebooted to windows.
And I had mapped d: to the /dev/hda7 (formerly /dev/hda6)
and e: ALSO (or should I say: STILL) to /dev/hda7.

.

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