Two devices per drive

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Bob

I am running Win2K/SP4.

I have an 80 GB IDE drive connected as chanell 0 master. It is the
boot disk with only one NTFS partition spanning the entire disk. The
label is "Sysyem".

When I look at My Computer, I see only 1 disk icon. The same is when
I look at Disk Manager. But when I use Win2K Defrag, the drive list
shows two devices. One is called "System (C:)" and the other is called
"System". Both show the same size (76,316 MB) and both show NTFS File
System.

If I use PerfectDisk to display the devices, it permits me to see the
GUID. In this case each device has its own different GUID but
otherwise each device is the same.

The same thing happens when I install a second IDE drive as slave on
channel 0 - I get two devices. In that case I get "Backup (D:)" and
"Backup" with the same size and file system, and the GUIDs are
different.

What is going on and how do I fix it?
 
B

Bob

You have Microsoft products mounted. Install some variety of Linux.
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We had our chance back in 1990s when Novell bought SV R4 from AT&T. NT
was a shambles but Unka Bill managed to scare all the IT ninnies into
using Virus95 and not go over to UNIX. It's those chickenshits who did
us all in.

I have too many applications that run only on Windows, such as
commodity trading platforms, etc. Anyway, to hear it from the
penguins, Linux has its share of nightmares too. So it would just be
another instance of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
 
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kony

We had our chance back in 1990s when Novell bought SV R4 from AT&T. NT
was a shambles but Unka Bill managed to scare all the IT ninnies into
using Virus95 and not go over to UNIX. It's those chickenshits who did
us all in.

I have too many applications that run only on Windows, such as
commodity trading platforms, etc. Anyway, to hear it from the
penguins, Linux has its share of nightmares too. So it would just be
another instance of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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.... but did you ever bother to do a clean install of 2k or
is this still the nearly decade-old upgrade of NT4 you're
running?
 
B

Bob

... but did you ever bother to do a clean install of 2k or
is this still the nearly decade-old upgrade of NT4 you're
running?
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It is the nearly decade-old upgrade of NT4.

I have far too many applications to do a fresh install. When Vista
comes I will do it, but not for Win2K which is no longer supported.

My point is that this PerfectDisk program could be the way to fix
problems similar to mine.
 
K

kony

It is the nearly decade-old upgrade of NT4.

I have far too many applications to do a fresh install. When Vista
comes I will do it, but not for Win2K which is no longer supported.
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What difference does "supported" make?
You're already running 2K several years after XP debuted, it
is far more mature and needing less "support" than Vista
ever would.

You seem to be entirely missing the point though, a large %
of the problems, a large percent of OS partition waste, and
performance loss might be attributed to the state of your
OS.

The solution when you have a lot of apps is to build up the
replacement installation as a work-in-progress, while
continuing to use the existing one. Leave the existing
installation intact even after you feel the new one is
finished for any potentially remaining data, settings, etc,
transfers.

My point is that this PerfectDisk program could be the way to fix
problems similar to mine.
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A problem that shouldn't exist? Ok, whatever makes you
happy?
 
B

Bob

A problem that shouldn't exist? Ok, whatever makes you
happy?
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It would make me happy if someone knew why I have two devices attached
to each hard disk. Can't you tell me?

It's as though Windows thinks I am using 1 disk for a mirror without
saying anything as such. How do I explore the mirror possibility?
 

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