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F drive ? FAT?
Dont know where this FAT drive came from. I have always had the typical NTFS
"C" drive since I got this Win XP home edition 3 years ago. This F drive has 98 % free space. I never installed a second drive. the only thing that I could tihnk of is that one of those flash drives (san disk) was inserted in my pc months ago and never 'erased' itself. Can I just delete this f drive. I have no clue what to do. I tried to delete it but there is no option to do this. I hope that I gave u enough info on this matter. BTW, the files in thie Local F drive were just Dell files that I recently moved to a diff folder to save in case I deleted it and caused problems. any ideas? -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! |
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F drive ? FAT?
If you have two CD/DVD drives then F would be the next letter available, by
any chance is F the system restore partition? JS "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... Dont know where this FAT drive came from. I have always had the typical NTFS "C" drive since I got this Win XP home edition 3 years ago. This F drive has 98 % free space. I never installed a second drive. the only thing that I could tihnk of is that one of those flash drives (san disk) was inserted in my pc months ago and never 'erased' itself. Can I just delete this f drive. I have no clue what to do. I tried to delete it but there is no option to do this. I hope that I gave u enough info on this matter. BTW, the files in thie Local F drive were just Dell files that I recently moved to a diff folder to save in case I deleted it and caused problems. any ideas? -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! |
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F drive ? FAT?
"RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message
... Dont know where this FAT drive came from. I have always had the typical NTFS "C" drive since I got this Win XP home edition 3 years ago. This F drive has 98 % free space. I never installed a second drive. the only thing that I could tihnk of is that one of those flash drives (san disk) was inserted in my pc months ago and never 'erased' itself. Can I just delete this f drive. I have no clue what to do. I tried to delete it but there is no option to do this. I hope that I gave u enough info on this matter. BTW, the files in thie Local F drive were just Dell files that I recently moved to a diff folder to save in case I deleted it and caused problems. any ideas? -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! You say that "the only thing that I could think of is that one of those flash drives (san disk) was inserted in my pc months ago and never 'erased' itself" and yet you were able to copy the files of it. If it was a flash drive with files on it how could you copy them when you claim there is no longer a flash drive installed. Windows can't remember stuff that good. If they were Dell files, why would they be on a flash drive? It's your restore partition or should I say was, and you probably screwed it up by moving the files. |
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F drive ? FAT?
This is probably the Dell Restore Partition or the Dell Utility Partition
which is automatically installed on Dell PCs. You can use Disk Management and unassign the Drive Letter to this partition. Or use Tweakui and hide the drive (but then you lose access to that letter for any drives). "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... Dont know where this FAT drive came from. I have always had the typical NTFS "C" drive since I got this Win XP home edition 3 years ago. This F drive has 98 % free space. I never installed a second drive. the only thing that I could tihnk of is that one of those flash drives (san disk) was inserted in my pc months ago and never 'erased' itself. Can I just delete this f drive. I have no clue what to do. I tried to delete it but there is no option to do this. I hope that I gave u enough info on this matter. BTW, the files in thie Local F drive were just Dell files that I recently moved to a diff folder to save in case I deleted it and caused problems. any ideas? -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! |
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F drive ? FAT?
I dont know if this fat file is a Dell restore partition or the dell utility
partition. But, the reason I mentioned that if this had anything to do with a Sandisk flash drive, was because I noticed this supposedly "f" local disk thing shortly after a relative used my dell with his flash drive to work on files he needed printed on there. It was then, that I noticed that such a F file existed. I had moved whatever files were in there to a new folder in an effort to delete it-I cant seem to find this folder on my pc. weird cause I dont remember deleting it. But the fact remains that the "f drive is still there and there are 2 hidden files in there. They are = a bootlog in notepad, and another one as a PRV file. Note= I had bought this dell in 2002 or so, along with another one i keep at home. The pc at home is normal and has no extra F drive. " You can use Disk Management and unassign the Drive Letter to this partition. Or use Tweakui and hide the drive (but then you lose access to that letter for any drives). DOnt know how to unassign and reassign the drive letter or use Tweakui- Sorry but dont understand the procedure. Also, dont care if I lose the letter "f', as g h i and so on can be used for digital cameras and things. (right??) someone commented to me this: Did I happen to plug in a digital camera to the USB port and download some photos to your computer? The total file size sounds like a 32 MB memory card. My card reader on my all-in-one printer shows up as drive F in the My Computer window. Or should we still assume it is the partition thing? thanks for ur help. anymore ideas -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! "NewScience" wrote in message ... This is probably the Dell Restore Partition or the Dell Utility Partition which is automatically installed on Dell PCs. You can use Disk Management and unassign the Drive Letter to this partition. Or use Tweakui and hide the drive (but then you lose access to that letter for any drives). "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... Dont know where this FAT drive came from. I have always had the typical NTFS "C" drive since I got this Win XP home edition 3 years ago. This F drive has 98 % free space. I never installed a second drive. the only thing that I could tihnk of is that one of those flash drives (san disk) was inserted in my pc months ago and never 'erased' itself. Can I just delete this f drive. I have no clue what to do. I tried to delete it but there is no option to do this. I hope that I gave u enough info on this matter. BTW, the files in thie Local F drive were just Dell files that I recently moved to a diff folder to save in case I deleted it and caused problems. any ideas? -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! |
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F drive ? FAT?
FOUND the folder that contains all the files in the Local F disk, that I had
moved to a new folder a while back-They contain lots of files with extentions like, MDM. they have names like yamaha, video, audio, USB, USB2, etc (probably totalling at least 30)=Still those other 2 bootlog ones still remain in the local F . I thought that I had moved everything to this new folder. but these 2 are hidden. -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... I dont know if this fat file is a Dell restore partition or the dell utility partition. But, the reason I mentioned that if this had anything to do with a Sandisk flash drive, was because I noticed this supposedly "f" local disk thing shortly after a relative used my dell with his flash drive to work on files he needed printed on there. It was then, that I noticed that such a F file existed. I had moved whatever files were in there to a new folder in an effort to delete it-I cant seem to find this folder on my pc. weird cause I dont remember deleting it. But the fact remains that the "f drive is still there and there are 2 hidden files in there. They are = a bootlog in notepad, and another one as a PRV file. Note= I had bought this dell in 2002 or so, along with another one i keep at home. The pc at home is normal and has no extra F drive. " You can use Disk Management and unassign the Drive Letter to this partition. Or use Tweakui and hide the drive (but then you lose access to that letter for any drives). DOnt know how to unassign and reassign the drive letter or use Tweakui- Sorry but dont understand the procedure. Also, dont care if I lose the letter "f', as g h i and so on can be used for digital cameras and things. (right??) someone commented to me this: Did I happen to plug in a digital camera to the USB port and download some photos to your computer? The total file size sounds like a 32 MB memory card. My card reader on my all-in-one printer shows up as drive F in the My Computer window. Or should we still assume it is the partition thing? thanks for ur help. anymore ideas -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! "NewScience" wrote in message ... This is probably the Dell Restore Partition or the Dell Utility Partition which is automatically installed on Dell PCs. You can use Disk Management and unassign the Drive Letter to this partition. Or use Tweakui and hide the drive (but then you lose access to that letter for any drives). "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... Dont know where this FAT drive came from. I have always had the typical NTFS "C" drive since I got this Win XP home edition 3 years ago. This F drive has 98 % free space. I never installed a second drive. the only thing that I could tihnk of is that one of those flash drives (san disk) was inserted in my pc months ago and never 'erased' itself. Can I just delete this f drive. I have no clue what to do. I tried to delete it but there is no option to do this. I hope that I gave u enough info on this matter. BTW, the files in thie Local F drive were just Dell files that I recently moved to a diff folder to save in case I deleted it and caused problems. any ideas? -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! |
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F drive ? FAT?
"RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... FOUND the folder that contains all the files in the Local F disk, that I had moved to a new folder a while back-They contain lots of files with extentions like, MDM. they have names like yamaha, video, audio, USB, USB2, etc (probably totalling at least 30)=Still those other 2 bootlog ones still remain in the local F . I thought that I had moved everything to this new folder. but these 2 are hidden. Sounds like drivers or software that are meant for your motherboard and accessories. Put the files back in the drive where they were... - Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop, select Manage in menu. - In the right window, choose Disk Management - The right window splits in two, bottom window, find the drive letter F: and right click within that box somewhere - Within that menu, choose Change Drive Letter and Paths - In new window, click the letter F: and choose the button at window bottom, Remove. - Click OK, close the Computer Management window. You're DONE. |
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F drive ? FAT?
Hi Femaster. I followed your steps but rang into a problem- I did all these
steps: - Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop, select Manage in menu. - In the right window, choose Disk Management - The right window splits in two, bottom window, find the drive letter F: and right click within that box somewhere BUT, when I right clicked on the F (FAT)& this drive in question, all I got was the "help" option. Just to see if I was doing this correctly, I right clicked on the NTFS drive and saw that the option "Change Drive Letter and Paths" was available there. So, I never got to finish up your steps. What do you suppose is going on. PS I moved all the files back to the local disk F as you suggested. thank you hope you can still help. -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! "FeMaster" FeMaster @ hotmail . com wrote in message ... "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... FOUND the folder that contains all the files in the Local F disk, that I had moved to a new folder a while back-They contain lots of files with extentions like, MDM. they have names like yamaha, video, audio, USB, USB2, etc (probably totalling at least 30)=Still those other 2 bootlog ones still remain in the local F . I thought that I had moved everything to this new folder. but these 2 are hidden. Sounds like drivers or software that are meant for your motherboard and accessories. Put the files back in the drive where they were... - Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop, select Manage in menu. - In the right window, choose Disk Management - The right window splits in two, bottom window, find the drive letter F: and right click within that box somewhere - Within that menu, choose Change Drive Letter and Paths - In new window, click the letter F: and choose the button at window bottom, Remove. - Click OK, close the Computer Management window. You're DONE. |
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F drive ? FAT?
"RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... Hi Femaster. I followed your steps but rang into a problem- I did all these steps: - Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop, select Manage in menu. - In the right window, choose Disk Management - The right window splits in two, bottom window, find the drive letter F: and right click within that box somewhere BUT, when I right clicked on the F (FAT)& this drive in question, all I got was the "help" option. Just to see if I was doing this correctly, I right clicked on the NTFS drive and saw that the option "Change Drive Letter and Paths" was available there. So, I never got to finish up your steps. What do you suppose is going on. PS I moved all the files back to the local disk F as you suggested. thank you hope you can still help. OK, lets start with this. Go back to the Disk Management window... In the ROW that the Drive F: is listed under, what is the designation to the LEFT of it, i.e, Disk 0, Disk 1, CD-ROM 0, etc? Type everything that is listed in that box. For example, my main Hard Drive is, "Disk 0", "Basic", "37.27GB", "Online". To the RIGHT of that, how many "drives" are listed, Example (mine) is MAIN (C, PROGRAMS (D, PAGE FILE (E. Is there any mention of "Unallocated Space"? |
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F drive ? FAT?
FeMaster, thanks... here are my findings =
Disk O is basic 37.28 GB online to the left of the box. ---- Then to the right of that box is (which I beleve the fat file) 31 MB Fat healthy EISA configuration---- then the box to the right of that one (which I beleive is the NTFS) is 37.25 GB NFTS healthy active ---------------- then below this starts the list of: disk 1 removable media (H)....no media CD rom, dvd rom, etc AND all show no media --------------- NOW, mine does NOT say anything like this MAIN (C, PROGRAMS (D, PAGE FILE (E. Is there any mention of "Unallocated Space"?), NONE of these things show. Just what I showed above. Of course on the top white bigger box it shows the % of space, capacity, tolerance, overhead, etc This is weird. Now, whats next?? I think u again! ! ! "FeMaster" FeMaster @ hotmail . com wrote in message ... "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... Hi Femaster. I followed your steps but rang into a problem- I did all these steps: - Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop, select Manage in menu. - In the right window, choose Disk Management - The right window splits in two, bottom window, find the drive letter F: and right click within that box somewhere BUT, when I right clicked on the F (FAT)& this drive in question, all I got was the "help" option. Just to see if I was doing this correctly, I right clicked on the NTFS drive and saw that the option "Change Drive Letter and Paths" was available there. So, I never got to finish up your steps. What do you suppose is going on. PS I moved all the files back to the local disk F as you suggested. thank you hope you can still help. OK, lets start with this. Go back to the Disk Management window... In the ROW that the Drive F: is listed under, what is the designation to the LEFT of it, i.e, Disk 0, Disk 1, CD-ROM 0, etc? Type everything that is listed in that box. For example, my main Hard Drive is, "Disk 0", "Basic", "37.27GB", "Online". To the RIGHT of that, how many "drives" are listed, Example (mine) is MAIN (C, PROGRAMS (D, PAGE FILE (E. Is there any mention of "Unallocated Space"? |
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F drive ? FAT?
Sorry it took so long to reply... If you have replaced all the files to the
partition, then you are good to go. According to my research, the partition was put there by the computer's manufacturer, I'm not exactly sure why it has become visible, as it is not supposed to be... Unfortunately, I'm not finding a solution to you dilemma as to why it's visible ,and why it has been assigned a drive letter, as according to me reading, EISA Configuration partitions are supposed to never have a drive letter assigned to them, and Windows 2000/XP is supposed to natively know this, and not allow it to happen... Sorry I couldn't help any further. I've ran into a wall. "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... FeMaster, thanks... here are my findings = Disk O is basic 37.28 GB online to the left of the box. ---- Then to the right of that box is (which I beleve the fat file) 31 MB Fat healthy EISA configuration---- then the box to the right of that one (which I beleive is the NTFS) is 37.25 GB NFTS healthy active ---------------- then below this starts the list of: disk 1 removable media (H)....no media CD rom, dvd rom, etc AND all show no media --------------- NOW, mine does NOT say anything like this MAIN (C, PROGRAMS (D, PAGE FILE (E. Is there any mention of "Unallocated Space"?), NONE of these things show. Just what I showed above. Of course on the top white bigger box it shows the % of space, capacity, tolerance, overhead, etc This is weird. Now, whats next?? I think u again! ! ! "FeMaster" FeMaster @ hotmail . com wrote in message ... "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... Hi Femaster. I followed your steps but rang into a problem- I did all these steps: - Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop, select Manage in menu. - In the right window, choose Disk Management - The right window splits in two, bottom window, find the drive letter F: and right click within that box somewhere BUT, when I right clicked on the F (FAT)& this drive in question, all I got was the "help" option. Just to see if I was doing this correctly, I right clicked on the NTFS drive and saw that the option "Change Drive Letter and Paths" was available there. So, I never got to finish up your steps. What do you suppose is going on. PS I moved all the files back to the local disk F as you suggested. thank you hope you can still help. OK, lets start with this. Go back to the Disk Management window... In the ROW that the Drive F: is listed under, what is the designation to the LEFT of it, i.e, Disk 0, Disk 1, CD-ROM 0, etc? Type everything that is listed in that box. For example, my main Hard Drive is, "Disk 0", "Basic", "37.27GB", "Online". To the RIGHT of that, how many "drives" are listed, Example (mine) is MAIN (C, PROGRAMS (D, PAGE FILE (E. Is there any mention of "Unallocated Space"? |
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F drive ? FAT?
your help & time was greatly appreciated, nonetheless. I will use info
retrieved here to hopefully narrow down a future solution.THanks! -- Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! ! "FeMaster" FeMaster @ hotmail . com wrote in message ... Sorry it took so long to reply... If you have replaced all the files to the partition, then you are good to go. According to my research, the partition was put there by the computer's manufacturer, I'm not exactly sure why it has become visible, as it is not supposed to be... Unfortunately, I'm not finding a solution to you dilemma as to why it's visible ,and why it has been assigned a drive letter, as according to me reading, EISA Configuration partitions are supposed to never have a drive letter assigned to them, and Windows 2000/XP is supposed to natively know this, and not allow it to happen... Sorry I couldn't help any further. I've ran into a wall. "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... FeMaster, thanks... here are my findings = Disk O is basic 37.28 GB online to the left of the box. ---- Then to the right of that box is (which I beleve the fat file) 31 MB Fat healthy EISA configuration---- then the box to the right of that one (which I beleive is the NTFS) is 37.25 GB NFTS healthy active ---------------- then below this starts the list of: disk 1 removable media (H)....no media CD rom, dvd rom, etc AND all show no media --------------- NOW, mine does NOT say anything like this MAIN (C, PROGRAMS (D, PAGE FILE (E. Is there any mention of "Unallocated Space"?), NONE of these things show. Just what I showed above. Of course on the top white bigger box it shows the % of space, capacity, tolerance, overhead, etc This is weird. Now, whats next?? I think u again! ! ! "FeMaster" FeMaster @ hotmail . com wrote in message ... "RustyM" RM@RMcom wrote in message ... Hi Femaster. I followed your steps but rang into a problem- I did all these steps: - Right click the My Computer icon on your desktop, select Manage in menu. - In the right window, choose Disk Management - The right window splits in two, bottom window, find the drive letter F: and right click within that box somewhere BUT, when I right clicked on the F (FAT)& this drive in question, all I got was the "help" option. Just to see if I was doing this correctly, I right clicked on the NTFS drive and saw that the option "Change Drive Letter and Paths" was available there. So, I never got to finish up your steps. What do you suppose is going on. PS I moved all the files back to the local disk F as you suggested. thank you hope you can still help. OK, lets start with this. Go back to the Disk Management window... In the ROW that the Drive F: is listed under, what is the designation to the LEFT of it, i.e, Disk 0, Disk 1, CD-ROM 0, etc? Type everything that is listed in that box. For example, my main Hard Drive is, "Disk 0", "Basic", "37.27GB", "Online". To the RIGHT of that, how many "drives" are listed, Example (mine) is MAIN (C, PROGRAMS (D, PAGE FILE (E. Is there any mention of "Unallocated Space"? |
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