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David
December 7th 03, 12:26 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>I have two hd's and I have win 98 on drive c and win xp
>pro on drive d.
>drive c shows used 1.91 GB and free space 72.5 GB
>drive d shows 6.34 free space as 68.1 GB
>D is formatted as NTFS and C is formatted as FAT 32 bit
>E show o bytes as used and o bytes as free space. go
>figure.
>I need this solved because when I hook up my asus
>40x12x42 cdrw and go into win 98 is is froze solid.
>When I unhook it and just plug in my cd-rw win 98 works
>fine.
>
>It seems as if I need to get rid of this shadow drive E
>But, I have not found a way to do it.
>If I change drive letters in win 98 the cd-rom become
>drive E and the D hd become drive F
>
>Help
>
>David Lee
>.
>go into control panel- admin. tools/computer
manager/disk management delete drive

Lloyd LaBaw
December 7th 03, 12:26 AM
must be a an unformatted partition on one of the drives, you could change it
to drive letter (something other than E:) maybe g: ?

"David" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have two hd's and I have win 98 on drive c and win xp
> >pro on drive d.
> >drive c shows used 1.91 GB and free space 72.5 GB
> >drive d shows 6.34 free space as 68.1 GB
> >D is formatted as NTFS and C is formatted as FAT 32 bit
> >E show o bytes as used and o bytes as free space. go
> >figure.
> >I need this solved because when I hook up my asus
> >40x12x42 cdrw and go into win 98 is is froze solid.
> >When I unhook it and just plug in my cd-rw win 98 works
> >fine.
> >
> >It seems as if I need to get rid of this shadow drive E
> >But, I have not found a way to do it.
> >If I change drive letters in win 98 the cd-rom become
> >drive E and the D hd become drive F
> >
> >Help
> >
> >David Lee
> >.
> >go into control panel- admin. tools/computer
> manager/disk management delete drive

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