Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

[Guest Ka1oxd]

I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

 

I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

[Guest Andrew E.]

RE: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

In my computer it shows the partition.If so,if you want to delete it,boot

to xp

cd,recovery,in recovery type:DiskPart In DiskPart,delete the partition,press

Esc key to exit,type:EXIT

 

"Ka1oxd" wrote:

> I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

> drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

> comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

> I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

> seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

> both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

>

> I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

> the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

[Guest Ka1oxd]

RE: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

C & D are both device\harddisk0\partition1. If I use diskPart will that not

erase everything that is on the physical drive?

 

"Andrew E." wrote:

> In my computer it shows the partition.If so,if you want to delete it,boot

> to xp

> cd,recovery,in recovery type:DiskPart In DiskPart,delete the partition,press

> Esc key to exit,type:EXIT

>

> "Ka1oxd" wrote:

>

> > I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

> > drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

> > comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

> > I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

> > seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

> > both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

> >

> > I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

> > the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

[Guest Sunny]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

 

"Ka1oxd" <Ka1oxd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:0F89CA4F-2D70-4FB0-A62E-154E25BEA945@microsoft.com...

|I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and

one

| drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard

drive

| comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct.

If

| I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d.

It

| seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition

as

| both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to

d:\windows\system32.

|

| I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid

of

| the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

 

Is the hard drive in Win explorer shown as two separate hard drives?

What are the CD'DVD drives named?

If drive "D" is separate, can you access it to see what, if anything, is

on it (including any hidden or recovery files)?

 

Have you accessed disk management rather than "recovery console?

[Guest Uwe Sieber]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

Ka1oxd wrote:

> I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

> drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

> comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

> I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

> seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

> both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

>

> I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

> the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

 

If you are sure that both drive letter point to the

same partition then remove on by the mountvol command:

 

mountvol D: /D

 

 

Uwe

[Guest Ka1oxd]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

Oh yes, windows explore is showing the same physical drive with the same

exact file structure as both C & D. I also have 2 CD-rom/DVD installed. they

come up as E & F. So I have another questiion. If the boot drive is C: and

the %Systemrot0% maps to d: will this automatically change to the appropriate

drive C: or will there be other items I would have to fix? Like running the

recovery console and again fix the MBR & fixboot?

 

"Uwe Sieber" wrote:

> Ka1oxd wrote:

> > I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

> > drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

> > comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

> > I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

> > seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

> > both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

> >

> > I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

> > the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

>

> If you are sure that both drive letter point to the

> same partition then remove on by the mountvol command:

>

> mountvol D: /D

>

>

> Uwe

>

>

[Guest Ka1oxd]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

Under Disk Manager, it shows only one drive, called c: no reference to drive

d: There never has been a mirror drive in this system either. If I copy

files to my documents on drive d they show up on drive c

 

"Uwe Sieber" wrote:

> Ka1oxd wrote:

> > I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

> > drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

> > comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

> > I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

> > seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

> > both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

> >

> > I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

> > the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

>

> If you are sure that both drive letter point to the

> same partition then remove on by the mountvol command:

>

> mountvol D: /D

>

>

> Uwe

>

>

[Guest John John]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

Do you have any substituted drives? Open a Command Prompt and issue the

SUBST command, what does it return?

 

John

 

Ka1oxd wrote:

> Under Disk Manager, it shows only one drive, called c: no reference to drive

> d: There never has been a mirror drive in this system either. If I copy

> files to my documents on drive d they show up on drive c

>

> "Uwe Sieber" wrote:

>

>

>>Ka1oxd wrote:

>>

>>>I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

>>>drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

>>>comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

>>>I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

>>>seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

>>>both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

>>>

>>>I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

>>>the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

>>

>>If you are sure that both drive letter point to the

>>same partition then remove on by the mountvol command:

>>

>>mountvol D: /D

>>

>>

>>Uwe

>>

>>

[Guest Uwe Sieber]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

 

The disk management is probably not able to deal with

more than one drive letter per drive and therefore

show one only.

 

If %systemroot% points to D:\Windows then there is

a serious problem and removing letter D: will completely

screw up the system because there may be lots of

references to D:.

 

Which letter is the one that Windows had after

installation? If it was C: then removing D: may

work.

 

Before removing D: I would do a registry search and

replace of D:\ to C:\. A good tool for this job is

this:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/regsrch1.zip

 

But there is no guarantee, better create an image

of the system partition before...

 

 

Uwe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ka1oxd wrote:

> Oh yes, windows explore is showing the same physical drive with the same

> exact file structure as both C & D. I also have 2 CD-rom/DVD installed. they

> come up as E & F. So I have another questiion. If the boot drive is C: and

> the %Systemrot0% maps to d: will this automatically change to the appropriate

> drive C: or will there be other items I would have to fix? Like running the

> recovery console and again fix the MBR & fixboot?

>

> "Uwe Sieber" wrote:

>

>> Ka1oxd wrote:

>>> I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

>>> drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

>>> comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

>>> I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

>>> seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

>>> both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

>>>

>>> I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

>>> the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

>> If you are sure that both drive letter point to the

>> same partition then remove on by the mountvol command:

>>

>> mountvol D: /D

>>

>>

>> Uwe

>>

>>

[Guest Ka1oxd]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

To answer a couple of questions. The boot drive is c:, but it keeps moving

the "%SystemRoot% to drive d:. I ran the SUBST command and there is no

virtual drives mounted.

 

I will backup the drive and try again this weekend with mountvol command.

 

"John John" wrote:

> Do you have any substituted drives? Open a Command Prompt and issue the

> SUBST command, what does it return?

>

> John

>

> Ka1oxd wrote:

> > Under Disk Manager, it shows only one drive, called c: no reference to drive

> > d: There never has been a mirror drive in this system either. If I copy

> > files to my documents on drive d they show up on drive c

> >

> > "Uwe Sieber" wrote:

> >

> >

> >>Ka1oxd wrote:

> >>

> >>>I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

> >>>drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

> >>>comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

> >>>I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

> >>>seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

> >>>both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

> >>>

> >>>I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

> >>>the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

> >>

> >>If you are sure that both drive letter point to the

> >>same partition then remove on by the mountvol command:

> >>

> >>mountvol D: /D

> >>

> >>

> >>Uwe

> >>

> >>

>

>

[Guest Andy]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:14:00 -0700, Ka1oxd

<Ka1oxd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

>drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

>comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

>I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

>seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

>both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

>

>I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

>the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

 

Run regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, and

delete \DosDevices\D:.

Reboot.

[Guest Ka1oxd]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

Andy, I created a restore point, deleted that entry, went through and changed

all the d:\windows to c:\windows and rebooted the computer. Guess what? I

still have c: and d: %Systemroot% still points to d:\windows\system32 and

ComSec - d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe. windir = d:\windows

 

Where do we go from here? Re-install windows?

 

 

 

 

"Andy" wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:14:00 -0700, Ka1oxd

> <Ka1oxd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

> >I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

> >drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

> >comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

> >I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

> >seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

> >both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

> >

> >I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

> >the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

>

> Run regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, and

> delete \DosDevices\D:.

> Reboot.

>

[Guest John John]

Re: Hard drive with 2 drive letters.

 

Download WinObj and see if it can shed some light on the this mysterious

symbolic link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896657.aspx

 

John

 

Ka1oxd wrote:

> To answer a couple of questions. The boot drive is c:, but it keeps moving

> the "%SystemRoot% to drive d:. I ran the SUBST command and there is no

> virtual drives mounted.

>

> I will backup the drive and try again this weekend with mountvol command.

>

> "John John" wrote:

>

>

>>Do you have any substituted drives? Open a Command Prompt and issue the

>>SUBST command, what does it return?

>>

>>John

>>

>>Ka1oxd wrote:

>>

>>>Under Disk Manager, it shows only one drive, called c: no reference to drive

>>>d: There never has been a mirror drive in this system either. If I copy

>>>files to my documents on drive d they show up on drive c

>>>

>>>"Uwe Sieber" wrote:

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>>Ka1oxd wrote:

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>>I am having a problem with my Windows XP. I have one single partion and one

>>>>>drive. When I start up the recovery console, and type MAP the hard drive

>>>>>comes back as drive c: and device\harddisk0\partition1 which is correct. If

>>>>>I go into Windows, bring up windows explorer, I have both drive c & d. It

>>>>>seems that for some reason, it is assigning the one physical partition as

>>>>>both c & d and the OS keeps assigning the %SystemRoot% to d:\windows\system32.

>>>>>

>>>>>I have tried using fixmbr, fixboot, and other items. nothing gets rid of

>>>>>the ghost drive that does not phsyically exist. anyone got any ideas?

>>>>

>>>>If you are sure that both drive letter point to the

>>>>same partition then remove on by the mountvol command:

>>>>

>>>>mountvol D: /D

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>Uwe

>>>>

>>>>

>>

>>