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Old January 27th 14, 02:58 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

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?
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Old January 27th 14, 03:17 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On 27/01/2014 01:58, (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?


Drive D is normally the CD/DVD drive and I don't think you can re-assign
it. It is like C drive is c drive and it can't be given anything else.

Has the system got a CD/DVD drive? Have you checked your system by
going to "ThisPC" in Windows 8 to see what is this drive.



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Old January 27th 14, 03:22 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On 1/26/14 7:17 PM, Good Guy wrote:
On 27/01/2014 01:58, (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?


Drive D is normally the CD/DVD drive and I don't think you can re-assign
it. It is like C drive is c drive and it can't be given anything else.


You can change it, I've done it many times. The only time I don't is
when that partition is the factory restore partition. I just don't want
to run into unforeseen happenings.

Has the system got a CD/DVD drive? Have you checked your system by
going to "ThisPC" in Windows 8 to see what is this drive.





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Old January 27th 14, 03:34 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

(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
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Old January 27th 14, 04:15 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Char Jackson
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:58:04 -0500, "(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?


It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD drive is
currently using "D:".

Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to something else,
then you'll be able to right click on your data partition and change its
letter to D:.

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Old January 27th 14, 04:18 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Char Jackson
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:17:45 +0000, Good Guy
wrote:

On 27/01/2014 01:58, (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?


Drive D is normally the CD/DVD drive and I don't think you can re-assign
it. It is like C drive is c drive and it can't be given anything else.


Not true. You can change optical drive letters all day long. Whether you
should or not, is another question. In this case, on a brand new system, I
don't see any issues with changing it.

Has the system got a CD/DVD drive? Have you checked your system by
going to "ThisPC" in Windows 8 to see what is this drive.


You can see the DVD drive in the screen cap linked above.

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Old January 27th 14, 01:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:58:04 -0500, "(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?


It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD drive is
currently using "D:".

Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to something else,
then you'll be able to right click on your data partition and change its
letter to D:.


Exactly. Look at mine;
http://tinyurl.com/q9wxsdw

Ed

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Old January 27th 14, 03:05 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

Per Char Jackson:
It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD drive is
currently using "D:".


ARRRRRRRGH!!!!!! RCI strikes again.

Thanks!... And my apologies for the inane post.
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Old January 27th 14, 09:06 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Gene E. Bloch[_5_]
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On 1/26/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:17:45 +0000, Good Guy
wrote:


On 27/01/2014 01:58, (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?


Drive D is normally the CD/DVD drive and I don't think you can
re-assign it. It is like C drive is c drive and it can't be given
anything else.


Not true. You can change optical drive letters all day long. Whether
you should or not, is another question. In this case, on a brand new
system, I don't see any issues with changing it.


Has the system got a CD/DVD drive? Have you checked your system by
going to "ThisPC" in Windows 8 to see what is this drive.


You can see the DVD drive in the screen cap linked above.


No, I can't. Not even on my computer's disk manager, where I know I
have a DVD drive with letter D:. OTOH, on my machines, a DVD drive is
visible in the Explorer even when there's no disk in it, but that is
(or was in prior versions) configurable.

I do see an unlettered drive of ~22GB. An optical drive with no disk in
it would show in the Explorer's property dialog as having 0 bytes...

If I were curious, I'd assign it a safe letter, like F: or something,
that won't conflict with anything, and look at it in Windows Explorer
(File Explorer or whatever it's now called). After satisfying my
curiosity (thereby probably proving to myself that I have no idea what
is!) I'd remove the letter again.

My suspicion: the drive is a hybrid with an SSD auxiliary.

Flames welcome :-)

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Old January 27th 14, 09:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On 1/26/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:58:04 -0500, "(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?


It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD drive is
currently using "D:".


Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to something
else, then you'll be able to right click on your data partition and
change its letter to D:.


This is rather strange. Everyone but me seems to be seeing a DVD drive
in that screenshot. I see no such thing, only a Drive 0 with partitions
C: and Z: and three unnamed ones, and an unnamed Drive 1 of 22.36GB.

My prior reply to you is based on the above experience.

Strange, I say :-)

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Old January 27th 14, 09:24 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

Gene E. Bloch brought next idea :
On 1/26/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:58:04 -0500, "(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?


It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD drive
is
currently using "D:".


Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to
something else, then you'll be able to right click on your data
partition and change its letter to D:.


This is rather strange. Everyone but me seems to be seeing a DVD
drive in that screenshot. I see no such thing, only a Drive 0 with
partitions C: and Z: and three unnamed ones, and an unnamed Drive 1
of 22.36GB.

My prior reply to you is based on the above experience.

Strange, I say :-)


Look towards the bottom of the pic. I missed it several times
before I finally saw it and slapped my forward screaming "DOH!"


Ed in E Texas


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Old January 27th 14, 09:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On 1/27/2014, Ed Propes posted:
Gene E. Bloch brought next idea :
On 1/26/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:58:04 -0500, "(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?


It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD drive
is
currently using "D:".


Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to
something else, then you'll be able to right click on your data
partition and change its letter to D:.


This is rather strange. Everyone but me seems to be seeing a DVD
drive in that screenshot. I see no such thing, only a Drive 0 with
partitions C: and Z: and three unnamed ones, and an unnamed Drive 1
of 22.36GB.

My prior reply to you is based on the above experience.

Strange, I say :-)


Look towards the bottom of the pic. I missed it several times before
I finally saw it and slapped my forward screaming "DOH!"


DOH!

Ed in E Texas


Thanks, Ed.

This happens to be a day when I badly needed a laugh...so /double/
thanks.

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Old January 27th 14, 09:45 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On 1/27/2014, Gene E. Bloch posted:
On 1/27/2014, Ed Propes posted:
Gene E. Bloch brought next idea :
On 1/26/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:58:04 -0500, "(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?

It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD
drive is
currently using "D:".

Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to
something else, then you'll be able to right click on your data
partition and change its letter to D:.

This is rather strange. Everyone but me seems to be seeing a DVD
drive in that screenshot. I see no such thing, only a Drive 0 with
partitions C: and Z: and three unnamed ones, and an unnamed Drive
1 of 22.36GB.

My prior reply to you is based on the above experience.

Strange, I say :-)


Look towards the bottom of the pic. I missed it several times
before I finally saw it and slapped my forward screaming "DOH!"


DOH!


Ed in E Texas


Thanks, Ed.


This happens to be a day when I badly needed a laugh...so /double/
thanks.


And armed with that info, I found the DVD drive E: (as well as the
virtual DVD drive F: for mounting ISOs) in my own disk management
window.

We're up to triple thanks now...

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Old January 27th 14, 09:57 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:15:36 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

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?


It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD drive is
currently using "D:".


Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to something
else, then you'll be able to right click on your data partition and
change its letter to D:.


This is rather strange. Everyone but me seems to be seeing a DVD drive
in that screenshot. I see no such thing, only a Drive 0 with partitions
C: and Z: and three unnamed ones, and an unnamed Drive 1 of 22.36GB.

My prior reply to you is based on the above experience.

Strange, I say :-)


It's the drive below Drive 1, do you need to scroll the picture down?

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Old January 27th 14, 10:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default ZenBook: Who Is Sitting On "D:" ?

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:57:20 +0000 (GMT), Rodney Pont wrote:

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?


It's right there in the screen cap that you posted. Your DVD drive is
currently using "D:".


Right click on the DVD drive and change its drive letter to something
else, then you'll be able to right click on your data partition and
change its letter to D:.


This is rather strange. Everyone but me seems to be seeing a DVD drive
in that screenshot. I see no such thing, only a Drive 0 with partitions
C: and Z: and three unnamed ones, and an unnamed Drive 1 of 22.36GB.

My prior reply to you is based on the above experience.

Strange, I say :-)


It's the drive below Drive 1, do you need to scroll the picture down?


I see you have found it now :-)

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