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. CC: For quicker delivery (A post took 12 hours yesterday...) 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? > > > > Curious about the people moderating your > > messages? Visit our staff web site: > > http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html