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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? -- Pete Cresswell |
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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. -- Good Guy Website: http://mytaxsite.co.uk Website: http://html-css.co.uk Email: http://mytaxsite.co.uk/contact-us |
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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. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 24.0 Thunderbird 24.0 |
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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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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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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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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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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. -- Pete Cresswell |
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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 :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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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 :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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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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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. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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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... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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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? -- Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2 and built in 5 years; UKUltraspeed http://www.500kmh.com/ |
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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 :-) -- Faster, cheaper, quieter than HS2 and built in 5 years; UKUltraspeed http://www.500kmh.com/ |
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