Drive Letter Errors

[TouchNova]

I just installed a second HDD on my system. I hooked it up, auto-recognized
in BIOS, then partitioned and formatted. That recognized the drive in My
Computer, but as two separate drives, F: and H:. I got rid of the H: drive
and F: still seems to work, but under Disk Management it says that the new
HDD is unallocated, which I take to mean that it's not even partitioned.
Rebooting doesn't seem to challenge the integrity of F:, but there's no
reference to an F: drive in Disk Management at all...so where the heck am I?

And is there a to turn of the color difference for NTFS drives?

Thanks folks,
TouchNova

 

[wojo]

This means you have unallocated space on the HDD that isn't formatted and
can't be until it is allocated. 1st guess is it's the space that was on the
H drive you deleted. You could recreate that as another partition or you can
use a program like partition magic to add this to your F drive.

 

[TouchNova]

Thanks for your reply. I know how to partition and get it to recognize the
new drive, but it creates some mock drive at the same time. I have one new
HDD and when I install it there should only be one new drive letter,
no?...unless it's partitioned to be more than on drive. But I haven't done
that, it's not even partitioned at all. I have partitioned it, and it works
fine. I just need to know why I now have a F: drive that shows as having a
System Volume file and a Recycle Bin on it already, both hidden files.
Where is this drive coming from. It's not listed in "right-click My
Computer, Manage, Disk Management" at all.

Thanks,
TouchNova

 

[wojo]

I misunderstood your post.
I do know that XP automatically sets aside around 8mb or so of space on your
HDD that you can't partition but I've never heard of it getting assigned a
drive letter. When you partitioned you are sure you allocated ALL available
space to the F drive partition?
If you did then somebody else will have to answer this one because I've
never seen this problem before.

 

[TouchNova]

Thanks for your prompt replies wojo. I'm positive I allocated all space to
one drive partition, but it's H: because it automatically pops up with a new
F: drive on its own. I'm really confused...

Thanks,
TouchNova

 

[wojo]

Sorry TouchNova but so am I now.
I guarantee one of the gurus in this NG will have an answer for you though.
Kelly probably has a tool somewhee in her bag of tricks but I don't remember
seeing any pertaining to this problem.

 

[Darrell]

Your post doesn't make sense. You said you partitioned your new drive and
in this part you say you didn't partition it.

 

[TouchNova]

I partitioned it, then removed the partition trying to backtrack and fix the
problem by starting over.