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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: dearl on November 24, 2004, 07:47:07 PM

Title: showing multiple hard drives
Post by: dearl on November 24, 2004, 07:47:07 PM

My brother is calling me for help on his computer. And I dont know the answer can some help out?
He loaded windows xp on it and it is showing 7 hard drives? how does he fix it to show only one?

Title: Re: showing multiple hard drives
Post by: cjkgmgod on November 25, 2004, 12:37:55 AM

Did it always say 7? Did he load XP on the machine? Sounds like a bad install. Run Fdisk and delete partitions and re-partition, format and reload XP

Title: Re: showing multiple hard drives
Post by: merlin_2 on November 25, 2004, 02:52:31 AM

go to the control panel/admin tools /disk management and delete the drive..<letters>

Title: Re: showing multiple hard drives
Post by: Raptor on November 25, 2004, 05:50:46 AM

You donot need Fdisk to create or remove partitions in Windows XP...