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Title: Dual drive letters
Post by: pursuant on March 26, 2018, 10:42:27 AM

I installed a Seagate portable drive to save data on. My pc shows two drive letters for the same drive. I was told this is a registry issue by Seagate. Im hoping there is a simple fix?

Thanks

Title: Re: Dual drive letters
Post by: Geek-9pm on March 26, 2018, 11:43:39 AM

Why do you thin kit is a problem?
Did the documentation indicate that has only one drive letter?
If the boc was already open when you bought it, somebody else had made it into two partitions.
It is not necessary to do any modifications either to the sea gate firmware or the Windows software. If the documentation indicates that the drive should only have one drive letter, then call the vendor ans ask for a rerun or refund.

Please provide the exact model number and somebody here, maybe me, will find the documentation and see what is normal for that product.

Some SeaGate drives do come with two partitions, but without the model number I am not sure about yours.

Title: Re: Dual drive letters
Post by: patio on March 26, 2018, 11:54:02 AM

I dont get it...does it have more than 1 partition ? ?
Or are you saying it reports a different drive letter on different PC "s....


I suspect the latter.

Title: Re: Dual drive letters
Post by: spankBot on April 01, 2018, 08:52:28 AM

A screen shot would be helpful please omit personal info in this SS.  Naturally if there is a partition such as a recovery partition then yes it will have multiple drive letters. My question is: is this your primary drive or secondary storage?

Title: Re: Dual drive letters
Post by: patio on April 01, 2018, 10:59:44 AM

He has yet to return and answer the other questions...