Phantom Drive Letter - It's taunting me

[AU Tiger]

I repartitioned my hard drives to where I now have a C, D, E and F partitions. I used to have a G partition but I consolidated it. The problem I have is that the computer insists that there is still a G: partition. It asks if I want to format it if I click on it in Explorer. If I choose to format, it fails.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of this drive letter or at least find out what WinXP thinks it is.

Running WinXP on an ASUS A7V266-E. Three hard drives divided into four partitions (C, D, E, F), a SCSI CD-ROM (H), SCSI DVD (I), and SCSI burner (J). I would like to get rid of G: so I can move each of my scsi drives up a letter.

 

[AU Tiger]

No one has any ideas? It's driving me crazy not being able to figure it out.

 

[AU Tiger]

The drive letter is taunting me! I will have to resort to a reinstall of WinXP if I can't figure this out.

 

[RazeOrc]

I have seen such a thing happen on an older hard drive that was a win98 drive but then reformatted and brought back to win95, it created a ghost drive that actually is the same drive, it's weird, there is just 2 drive letters recognized by the computer for the same set of files on the drive. I would reccomend using Partition Magic to see if you can remedy the situation, it will be one of the best investments you can make if you do a lot of building/rebuilding/teardowns of computer, or you have problems and failures.

 

[Beau]

Do you have just one disk containing 4 partitions? Try using disk administrator and delete the last couple partitions on your disk, commit to changes, reboot, repartition the remaining "Free Space" on your disk and format.

 

[AU Tiger]

I have three hard drives.

Primary Master - Was split into C: and F:
Secondary Master - Was split into D: and G:
Secondary Slave - Was E:

I deleted the two partitions on the Secondary Master drive and created one, thus eliminating G:

I should have

Primary Master - C: and F:
Secondary Master - D:
Secondary Slave - E:

The G: only shows in Explorer and DOS session. It does not appear in Disk Administrator.