One drive... two letters... how do I get rid of the second?

[Guest]

I recently removed a hard-drive from one of my computers. I remembered to
stop it mounting in the two other Linux OS's on the computer but failed to do
so in Windows as at the time I wasn't using it much. Now I am using it more
often. I recently noticed that when I plugged in a USB Drive, Portable Disk
or any other drive that E drive letter the old drive letter, X would
associate with it as well as the letter that would normally associate with it
(normally E) (ie in my computer both E and X link to the same drive). Now I
have mounted a new hard drive on the computer and found that the X drive
letter in My Computer links to it as well as the existing E partition. Now
the interesting thing to note is I re-organized the drive letters and made
the old D drive (disk drive) F and created two partitions on the new disk D
and E but X links to E.

Can anyone explain why this happened and how I can stop it?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

First, check out if one of the letter is a network or
subst drive which just points to the other one.
Start -> Run, enter CMD to open a command prompt.

Enter SUBST to get a list of subst drives. If it's
a subst drive, you can delete for instance X:
by SUBST X: /D, but a subst drive is not persistent,
so there must be something in the autorun that
creates it at startup.

To check for network drives enter NET USE. To delete
X:, enter NET USE X: /D


If the drives in question are not listed then they
are both real volume mountpoints, a very rare effect.

Enter MOUNTVOL to get a list of volume mountpoints.
Here both drive letters should point then to the same
volume.
To delete for instance letter X: enter MOUNTVOL X: /D


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Guest]

Sorry Uwe but I just tried all those solutions to no avail. substy x: /D
returned 'invalid parameter - X:'. There is no net use record of such a drive
and mountvol has no record of the drive either.

 

[Guest]

Ahh... I just realized the old filesystem that was mounted was a Ext2 FS and
I used IFS drives to mount it. I simply opened the IFS Drives configuration
window, closed it and rebooted and X: no longer shows up.

Thanx for the help but it was just a stupid problem on my part.