The drive in question has not been compressed.  The system was running without any problems for about three months before the phantom drive appeared.  No changes made to drivers.

I have tried to reset the 'E' partition through fdisk.  Only to have the phantom drive to reappear after a format of the 'E' partition.  Internal Zip drive is using win9x system drivers, but external ls-120 requires them.

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Please keep thread on list...
And good luck...
Hope this helps.   Rick

----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Glazier <[log in to unmask]>
To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [PCBUILD] Phantom drive


> Can't comment on (drive) compression... Never got further than WinZip.
> To me, dos compatibility mode suggests real mode (or wrong) drivers somewhere,
> or a virus.
> The only times I have gotten Phantom drives is when I was fooling around with
> actual peripherals that were already supported by the BIOS and/or the operating
> system AND I loaded (incorrectly!!!) another set of drivers too!  It is easy to
> "trip-up" Win95 this way...  Since you have an ls-120 involved in this "mix",
> I would look real hard at that first... That is one of the times this has happened to
> me...             Rick Glazier
>
>
> > Are you by chance using compression on E:?  Having it appear twice
> > is something I have seen with compressed logical drives.
> > If so, remove the compression.
> > Tom Turak
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 7:24 PM
> >
> > System specifics:
> >
> > 6.4gb Hard Drive
> > Win-98
> > Additional components-SCSI internal zip, second 2.1 hard drive, CD-ROM, CD
> > Burner and external LS-120, 1.2 & 1.44 floppy drives.
> >
> > The hard drive is partitioned in three parts 2.8, .5 and 2.8 with the .5
> > partition set as virtual memory.  Specific problem is that the .5 partition
> > is displayed twice.  Originally drive 'E' and now as drive 'I'.  The 'E'
> > drive appears to be a phantom drive-running in MS-DOS compatability mode.
> >
> > Is there a way to remove this phantom drive without doing a reformat of the
> > master dive?
> >
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