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Dave Harding
December 6th 03, 11:38 PM
After instlling a new HD and copying the files using the WD software I found
I had additional phantom drives. C, D, (E & F CD's) G and H

I reconfigured the system to just the new drive as master, renamed it to C
in regedit and then deleted the H drive (which was the old slave).

Now I have C, D and G hard drives, all of which seem to be identical.

I tried to remove the D and G drives in regedit but the system locked and I
had to reinstall / repair WinXP.

Worse, the system now seems to prefer the G version such that new drivers
are located on that drive.

When I looked at the WD HD driver it is located on the G drive. I tried to
change it to the "identical" drivers on the C drive but it refused!

What is going on here?

Dave in Pennsylvania

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