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| | Phantom CD Drive after reassigning Recovery Partition drive letter Another annoying Vista mystery. I just got a new HP Vista desktop -- I already have an HP Vista laptop. On both, HP provided a Recovery-Image partition which showed up as Drive D:. I usually like to reserve D: for a partition in which I put all my data, separate from the OS and installed programs. So on both systems, I used Vista's built-in Disk Mangement utility to reassign the drive letter from D: to Z:. This worked fine on the laptop, but on the desktop system, I was also left with D: but it now identified itself as a CD Drive (I only have a single DVD drive, which shows up as E .I can't find any way to remove this phantom CD drive and free up the drive letter D:. I talked to HP tech support, and was informed that reassigning the Recovery partition to a different letter was the cause of the problem, and that the ONLY way out of this is to do a recovery (yes, I did create recovery disks) which wipes the entire 500GB disk drive, and would force me to reinstall all my apps and restore all my data. I don't want to do this unless it's absolutely necessary. If I am to believe HP, there is no way that I can assign D: to any partition other than the original one set up to hold the recovery image. But I don't really believe that this is anything other than an implementation error on HP's part, and am hoping that someone in this NG can see a way around this problem and help me out. So, if anyone has any ideas on how to get rid of my phantom CD drive and free up the drive letter D: that is attached to it, I would be most grateful. TIA, Jay. -- Jay (remove dashes for legal email address) |
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| | Re: Phantom CD Drive after reassigning Recovery Partition drive letter HP provides an utility with the laptop that will copy the recovery partition to removeable media (CD/DVD) and remove the partition and it's drive designation. When the recovery partition was created the MBR was modified to display the "Hit F10 to..." at boot. Changing the drive letter or deleting the partition "normally" does not remove the modidifed MBR. Do not understand why HP rep did not inform you correctly. Also Vista uses Win PE for boot and repair - it is not advisable to use "X" or "Z" - PE usually reserves "X". "Jay Somerset" <jay-1941-@xxxxxx> wrote in message news 67om314mklgcqns960bomhoprnc1j6v7c@xxxxxxQuote: > Another annoying Vista mystery. > I just got a new HP Vista desktop -- I already have an HP Vista > laptop. > > On both, HP provided a Recovery-Image partition which showed up as > Drive D:. I usually like to reserve D: for a partition in which I put > all my data, separate from the OS and installed programs. So on both > systems, I used Vista's built-in Disk Mangement utility to reassign > the drive letter from D: to Z:. This worked fine on the laptop, but > on the desktop system, I was also left with D: but it now identified > itself as a CD Drive (I only have a single DVD drive, which shows up > as E .> > I can't find any way to remove this phantom CD drive and free up the > drive letter D:. I talked to HP tech support, and was informed that > reassigning the Recovery partition to a different letter was the cause > of the problem, and that the ONLY way out of this is to do a recovery > (yes, I did create recovery disks) which wipes the entire 500GB disk > drive, and would force me to reinstall all my apps and restore all my > data. I don't want to do this unless it's absolutely necessary. > > If I am to believe HP, there is no way that I can assign D: to any > partition other than the original one set up to hold the recovery > image. But I don't really believe that this is anything other than an > implementation error on HP's part, and am hoping that someone in this > NG can see a way around this problem and help me out. > > So, if anyone has any ideas on how to get rid of my phantom CD drive > and free up the drive letter D: that is attached to it, I would be > most grateful. > TIA, Jay. > -- > Jay (remove dashes for legal email address) |
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