Re: Unknown drive?

From: bille (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/09/04


Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:11:24 -0800


 Thank you for responding. Can you give me the
path/process for doing what you suggested? --> "..if you
can "point to" all drives/readers on your system both
physical and logical and you end up with letter "F:" left
over, you are
probably safe in deleting that device."

Thanks,
--bille.

>-----Original Message-----
>On 08 Mar 2004, in news:941f01c4056e$f2619780
$a401280a@phx.gbl, "bill"
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> scrawled:
>
>> I went to "my computer" and noticed a drive
>> labeled "removable disk (F:)" and I cannot eject it.
>> Under properties the drive reads that it is full. I
>> removed my zip drive named removable disk (E:) and
tried
>> again, no luck. Is there a way in DOS that I can
remove
>> this unwelcome guest?
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>>
>
>Before arbitrarily removing any devices from your
installation, I would
>suggest emumerating all physical and logical drives on
your system with their
>respective drive letters.
>
>This may be a card reader or cd drive that is read-only
or it may even be a
>network drive set in read-only mode.
>
>However, if you can "point to" all drives/readers on
your system both
>physical and logical and you end up with letter "F:"
left over, you are
>probably safe in deleting that device.
>
>--
>Skorpion (CET)
>
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