1 drive with 2 device IDs causing corruption
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From: Le on 7 Mar 2010 14:27 I have a drive which has been Z: for eons and has recently had G: assigned as well. I reformatted the drive, added as Z: again and still G: is defined. I'm getting corruption on indices (even though indexing is turned off for the drive as Z:). Ping ponging between chkdsk /f for the two IDs settles down to no errors but then a reboot and it's back... XP Pro, SP3, what else would help the experts?
From: neil on 7 Mar 2010 14:46 Did you remove G and Z and then reset as Z again.? Neil "Le" <Le(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BF3628FC-88EF-4C13-9629-72CF7A0E2E42(a)microsoft.com... >I have a drive which has been Z: for eons and has recently had G: assigned >as > well. I reformatted the drive, added as Z: again and still G: is defined. > > I'm getting corruption on indices (even though indexing is turned off for > the drive as Z:). Ping ponging between chkdsk /f for the two IDs settles > down to no errors but then a reboot and it's back... > > XP Pro, SP3, what else would help the experts?
From: Le on 7 Mar 2010 20:14 G: has never shown up in the Disk Manager but does show up in "fsutil fsinfo drives". So, no, I found no way to "remove" the drive. I did delete the device z: in the Disk Manger prior to reformatting. Tried dismounting G: via fsutil but no joy. "neil" wrote: > Did you remove G and Z and then reset as Z again.? > Neil > "Le" <Le(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:BF3628FC-88EF-4C13-9629-72CF7A0E2E42(a)microsoft.com... > >I have a drive which has been Z: for eons and has recently had G: assigned > >as > > well. I reformatted the drive, added as Z: again and still G: is defined. > > > > I'm getting corruption on indices (even though indexing is turned off for > > the drive as Z:). Ping ponging between chkdsk /f for the two IDs settles > > down to no errors but then a reboot and it's back... > > > > XP Pro, SP3, what else would help the experts? > > > . >
From: Bill Blanton on 7 Mar 2010 20:59 There's probably minor corruption in this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices Assuming you have somewhat of a basic setup, make a restore point and delete that key and reboot. Windows will re-enumerate all drive letters. Note that if you have moved "system objects" such as the paging file or My Documents, or if you have changed the default letter for volumes (including adding or subtracting drives), you may have to redo all or some of that. Depending on your setup, there may be some risk.. Hence the restore point. ;) On 3/7/2010 20:14, Le wrote: > G: has never shown up in the Disk Manager but does show up in "fsutil fsinfo > drives". So, no, I found no way to "remove" the drive. I did delete the > device z: in the Disk Manger prior to reformatting. > > Tried dismounting G: via fsutil but no joy. > > "neil" wrote: > >> Did you remove G and Z and then reset as Z again.? >> Neil >> "Le"<Le(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:BF3628FC-88EF-4C13-9629-72CF7A0E2E42(a)microsoft.com... >>> I have a drive which has been Z: for eons and has recently had G: assigned >>> as >>> well. I reformatted the drive, added as Z: again and still G: is defined. >>> >>> I'm getting corruption on indices (even though indexing is turned off for >>> the drive as Z:). Ping ponging between chkdsk /f for the two IDs settles >>> down to no errors but then a reboot and it's back... >>> >>> XP Pro, SP3, what else would help the experts? >> >> >> . >>
From: Le on 7 Mar 2010 22:39
Thx Bill - did that and G: & Z: are still present based on "fsutil fsinfo drives". My Y: drive went away and is presented as just H:. I used Disk Manager to change the ID of the H: partition to Y: and I now have H: & Y: for it. "Bill Blanton" wrote: > There's probably minor corruption in this registry key: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices > > Assuming you have somewhat of a basic setup, make a restore point and > delete that key and reboot. Windows will re-enumerate all drive letters. > > Note that if you have moved "system objects" such as the paging file or > My Documents, or if you have changed the default letter for volumes > (including adding or subtracting drives), you may have to redo all or > some of that. > > Depending on your setup, there may be some risk.. Hence the restore > point. ;) > > > > > On 3/7/2010 20:14, Le wrote: > > G: has never shown up in the Disk Manager but does show up in "fsutil fsinfo > > drives". So, no, I found no way to "remove" the drive. I did delete the > > device z: in the Disk Manger prior to reformatting. > > > > Tried dismounting G: via fsutil but no joy. > > > > "neil" wrote: > > > >> Did you remove G and Z and then reset as Z again.? > >> Neil > >> "Le"<Le(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > >> news:BF3628FC-88EF-4C13-9629-72CF7A0E2E42(a)microsoft.com... > >>> I have a drive which has been Z: for eons and has recently had G: assigned > >>> as > >>> well. I reformatted the drive, added as Z: again and still G: is defined. > >>> > >>> I'm getting corruption on indices (even though indexing is turned off for > >>> the drive as Z:). Ping ponging between chkdsk /f for the two IDs settles > >>> down to no errors but then a reboot and it's back... > >>> > >>> XP Pro, SP3, what else would help the experts? > >> > >> > >> . > >> > > . > |