Active Partitions

[Guest]

My problem started with repeated crashes caused a RAM defect. This has been
fixed, but because of the crashes my OS had several problems that I attempted
to correct by doing a repair installation of Windows XP Pro and then a
reinstallation of Service Pack 2 from a CD..

I have two physical Hard-drives installed, a C drive with no partions and a
second drive that is partitions into D and E drives. Also two CD-ROM labled F
and G.

Using Disk Manager I see a Disk O (C 76.32 GB NTFS Healthy (System; Disk
1 (D 58.59 GB NTFS Healthy and (E 55.90 GB NTFS Healthy; and a new never
before seen Disk 2 (H 76.33 GB NTFS Healthy (Active). I don't know where
this Disk 2 came from. I wasn't there prior to my repair installation of
Windows.

I also see the two CD-ROM drives labeled (F and (G.

My question is: Can I safely delete the partion of the new Disk 2 which is
the active drive? This drive has 3 folder, Documents and Settings, Program
Files, and Windows while my Disk 0 also has these same folders listed and all
folders on both drives contain lots of files.

I know this is confusing because it certainly confuses me, but I hope
someone can shed some light on my delima.

 

[Guest]

Yep, it's confusing!

Try this...go to the drive that you want to delete (using Windows Explorer)
and rename all the directories in the root of the drive (the level just
before the drive letter).

Leave it this way for a week or two. If there's no problems, then they
should be safe to delete (although I'd advise backing them up to CD/DVD
before deleting them - just in case!)

- John
(fellow retiree)

 

[Guest]

Hello Joh,

i just wanted you to know that I followed your advice and renamed the files
in the root of the mystery drive and then after much study, book reading,
contemplation, etc. I realized that the caddy drive that was inserted in my
drive-drawer (used for backing up) was enabled, Inserted draw key, turned
drive off, problem solved. I must have been thinking about lunch instead of
my computer problem when I applied myself to the problem .