Duplicate or Ghost drive showing up.....cant remove......need help

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In windows explorer I see a C: and E: harddrive. Their is no 2nd harddrive
installed and E: is a duplicate of C:
In the BIOS I confrimed only have a single drive installed.
In the Admin/Disc mgt I confirmed only a single drive installed.
This is also a fresh install of Windows XP with all current updates.
The motherboard is a ASUS SE2.

I found some instructions to use regedit to delete drives in the "Mounted
Devices" registry folder and I deleted the E:

But E is always present on reboot.

How can I fix this?

thanks for any tips
 
Can you delete it with the 'Device Manager'?

Paste this into the Run box to launch the Device Manager:
devmgmt.msc


ju.c
 
Trs80 said:
In windows explorer I see a C: and E: harddrive. Their is no 2nd
harddrive installed and E: is a duplicate of C:
In the BIOS I confrimed only have a single drive installed.
In the Admin/Disc mgt I confirmed only a single drive installed.
This is also a fresh install of Windows XP with all current updates.
The motherboard is a ASUS SE2.

I found some instructions to use regedit to delete drives in the
"Mounted Devices" registry folder and I deleted the E:

But E is always present on reboot.

How can I fix this?
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What kind of computer do you have? One where you got no Windows CD but on
which the original computer setup is stored in a partition so you can use it
to get back to square one should the need arise?

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This might be a substituted drive. At a Command Prompt issue the SUBST
command and see what it reports, if E: is a substituted drive the
command will report E:\: => C:\

To delete the substituted drive issue the following command:

subst e: /d

If the substituted drive reappears after a reboot then you have a
startup item creating the drive, you will have to look at your startup
list to see what might be creating the drive.

John
 
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