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On 24 Nov 98 at 11:58, Sean Celestine wrote:
> 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:.
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.
2. Back up everything from C: -- you may lose it all at step 3 or 4
below, so if you want it back you should save it now.
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.
4. If simply removing D: didn't fix it, remove C: as well and start
over.
5. If that didn't work, try replacing FDISK with some third-party
tool such as Partition Magic. I don't actually know for certain how
it would handle this case, but it knows a number of tricks that FDISK
doesn't.
6. See if the drive manufacturer's web site offers a "low-level
format" utility for this drive. Most don't for IDE/EIDE/UDMA drives;
SCSI controllers typically provide a formatting routine in firmware
for all SCSI drives. If the drive is IDE/EIDE/UDMA and the
manufacturer doesn't provide such a utility, the drive is not meant
to be low-level-formatted -- do not attempt to use a generic utility,
which will probably have been implemented for older MFM & RLL drives.
David G
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