(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Finally bit the bullet and bought a ZenBook.

Windows 8 isn't quite as traumatic as I was expecting - especially with
the addition of Start8.

I re-partitioned the 500-gig drive into C: System and Z: Data, splitting
the space about fifty-fifty.

What I want, though, is to have that Data partition have the drive
letter D:, but somebody's using the designation "D:" for one of the
drives and I can't figure out how to free it up.

I'm guessing it's one of those un-lettered partitions as shown in this
screen snap of DiscManager: http://tinyurl.com/mv4gofs and Windows 8,
for some reason, isn't showing letters.


Anybody have an idea of how to get to the bottom of this?

Look in the registry for DosDevices ?

http://i41.tinypic.com/24xkku9.gif

That's not hexidecimal you're looking at. That's UTF-16 text,
where every second byte is 0x00. When you remove all the zero
bytes, you can put together an ASCII text string from what
is stored there. Presumably, the numeric identifier can be
further searched in the registry, to track down the
responsible device.

If I had to guess, your Zenbook has an SD slot, and the letter
D: is being reserved for a "card reader" chip.

Paul