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Emerald Saint
My suite of Roxio DVD software wasn't working for some reason (the Roxio
doesn't think my burner is connected) so I uninstalled and reinstalled the
Roxio
suite (old CD/DVD Creator 6) like was suggested by the error messages it was
giving me. That didn't fix anything, however my Windows Explorer started
showing a hard drive partition that I have marked type 'Hidden NTFS' which
always remained hidden until now. Also Explorer started showing a partition
that isn't even in the partition table any more. That one is actually on
the drive but it's not in the partition table so it should be really hidden.
Explorer was showing all the files in these - I mean these volumes weren't
just phantom drive icons on the tree.
I looked in the 'Mounted Devices' key in the registry and there was way too
much stuff in there - way more than usual. All this started right after I
reinstalled the Roxio software that wasn't working anymore. What the hell ?
The first two partitions on my hard drive are type Linux Swap and Linux..
The next one is my XP partition. There is no empty space between these
three. There were partitions above the XP one but they were invisible until
I did the Roxio thing. OK, so next I removed the type 'Hidden NTFS'
partition from the table but XP Explorer was still showing it. So I
zero-filled every sector above the XP partition. And I cleared the Mounted
Devices key again. Explorer still shows two volumes E: and F: . These
can't
possibly correspond to anything actually on the hard drive. They now have
zero bytes and XP asks if I want to format them.
Does anybody here know how to make Windows forget that these volumes ever
existed?
TIA
Bill S
doesn't think my burner is connected) so I uninstalled and reinstalled the
Roxio
suite (old CD/DVD Creator 6) like was suggested by the error messages it was
giving me. That didn't fix anything, however my Windows Explorer started
showing a hard drive partition that I have marked type 'Hidden NTFS' which
always remained hidden until now. Also Explorer started showing a partition
that isn't even in the partition table any more. That one is actually on
the drive but it's not in the partition table so it should be really hidden.
Explorer was showing all the files in these - I mean these volumes weren't
just phantom drive icons on the tree.
I looked in the 'Mounted Devices' key in the registry and there was way too
much stuff in there - way more than usual. All this started right after I
reinstalled the Roxio software that wasn't working anymore. What the hell ?
The first two partitions on my hard drive are type Linux Swap and Linux..
The next one is my XP partition. There is no empty space between these
three. There were partitions above the XP one but they were invisible until
I did the Roxio thing. OK, so next I removed the type 'Hidden NTFS'
partition from the table but XP Explorer was still showing it. So I
zero-filled every sector above the XP partition. And I cleared the Mounted
Devices key again. Explorer still shows two volumes E: and F: . These
can't
possibly correspond to anything actually on the hard drive. They now have
zero bytes and XP asks if I want to format them.
Does anybody here know how to make Windows forget that these volumes ever
existed?
TIA
Bill S