RE: partition appears two times in windows explorer (XP)

You can ONLY have one drive letter per partition!!

So there is another partition and possibly HD?
would like to free the letter e: (for another partition).

What other drives do yuo have installed (HD, CD or DVD, etc.)??

What drive letters are "assigned" to them?

If one of them is "E", then you have to change that drive to a different
letter to free up "E"!!!

make the twice mounted drive e: disappear!
HUH??

"quickhelp@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> 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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