> I've been experimenting with my laptop and performed an FDISK with
> FAT32 and the Create Primary partition option, I then did FORMAT C:
> /S.  Now explorer shows a C: and a D: drive.  They both have the
> same files, and when I copy something into C:, it also shows up on
> D:.  If I delete the files from D:, they come back and the tree
> structure is again the same as C:.  How do I get rid of this D:.

David Gillett said-
>  It sounds like you've got a corrupted partition table -- two
>entries which both point to the same region on the drive.  Partitions
>should NEVER overlap.
>
>  Things I would do:
>
>1.  Scan for a virus.  I don't know of one that has this effect, but
>I also don't know of any legitimate code that should do this.  If the
>problem *is* a virus, it must be dealt with before these other steps
>can do any good.

Possible but not likely

>3.  Use FDISK to remove D: partition entry.  Fixing it *might* be
>that simple.  Check that C: still exists and contains your files; if
>not, you'll be glad you backed it up.

Not likely to help

Whats happened is that you now have do have a corrupted Partition table. If
you use a low level utility such as Norton Utilities Diskedit you will
actually find 2 partition entries. You will find a 1 FAT32 partition and 1
FAT32X partition. and both will show the same values.  I have fixed this
with Diskedit but I think your best bet is to BackUp and then remove the
extra partition preferably remove both partitions and then re Fdisk using
the /X switch.  Its been a while since I have seen the Ghost partition problem.

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