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Phantom drive?

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Name: Vidda
Date: August 22, 2003 at 15:03:43 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 1.3 GHz/256 MB
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Err...yeah, it's not quite of a problem, but just a little, very little bug.

When I explore "My computer" section I see three hard drives. Two are normal hard drives but the third, wich is on the D: drive, is just an icon. It's not a damaged CD drive, because I have my CD drive icon in the same windows as the letter E:. It isn't either my floppy drive for the same reason as the letter A:. When I open it, it says it isn't formatted. When I click "yes" to format the drive, the formatting dialog appear and it says it should have 7,84 MB of disk space. When I click on "Start" to format, it format very quick, but not like in a millisecond, just veryquick. When it's over, I close the dialog and it says that the D: drive cannot be formatted. What is it? Could it be because my CD drive is also a CD burner or something and that I don't have a normal CD drive with it?



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Name: Khash
Date: August 22, 2003 at 16:04:32 Pacific
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Maybe your hard drive was messed up on partitioning.
Right click on my computer and click on manage. Then under storage click on disk management. You should be able to find out if it's part of your hard drive or not.


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