Re: Counterfeit disk showing up in Explorer

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On Fri, 18 May 2007 17:16:00 -0700, Fred615
<Fred615@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



This is what I got where "I:" and "K:" are both Local Drives that have zero
bytes and both give the above error message.

"\\DosDevices\\D:"=hex:6f,73,6f,73,00,4a,f3,34,0c,00,00,00
"\\DosDevices\\E:"=hex:6f,73,6f,73,00,68,8c,66,23,00,00,00
"\\DosDevices\\F:"=hex:50,1f,00,03,00,7e,00,00,00,00,00,00
"\\DosDevices\\G:"=hex:50,1f,00,03,00,6e,3c,ca,09,00,00,00
"\\DosDevices\\H:"=hex:50,1f,00,03,00,a6,51,76,10,00,00,00
"\\DosDevices\\I:"=hex:50,1f,00,03,00,82,6f,f2,1b,00,00,00
"\\DosDevices\\J:"=hex:00,73,b5,a4,00,7e,00,00,00,00,00,00
"\\DosDevices\\K:"=hex:00,73,b5,a4,00,02,8b,38,3a,00,00,00

There is no other data following the listings for the I & K drives...
And there are no devices that these could possibly be except for USB
devices; a wireless mouse, a USB hard drive which is Drive J:, a USB
connection to a BBU.

I didn't mention it before but neither Partition Magic nor Disk Management
show these drives...

The first 4 bytes listed on each line are the DiskId from the hard
drive that the logical partition lives on and the remaining 8 bytes
are the starting offset of the partition.

Based on this we can see I: should be a partition on the hard drive
that also holds partitions F:, G:, and H:. We can also see that K:
should be a partition located on the same hard drive as J:.

If DiskManager does not show these partitions it suggests they must be
bogus values and you should be able to just delete these two values
from the MountedDevices key. Even if you deleted the entire
MountedDevices subkey it would be automatically rebuilt on the next
reboot so it's not dangerous to delete individual values.

My interest has been piqued so please let me know if deleting the keys
and rebooting gets rid of the extra drive icons

John Hensley
www.resqware.com
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