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In my PC there are only two DVD Roms, but when I open Everest or Total Commander, there is another TL3604W....
What is that, how can I remove this drive, beacuse I really dont use it and this G drive goes to my nervs. I would like to DELETE it.
Would you help me.

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thanks

Posted 5 months ago #

Lighthouse

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Try disabling it in Device Manager.

Posted 5 months ago #

firbec

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OMG, it works - so easy. THX a lot :)

Posted 5 months ago #

Lighthouse

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My pleasure :)

Posted 5 months ago #

firbec

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But now I have another question. I also have one HDD (500 GB) with 3 partition. One of partition is only for image file (if there goes something wrong) and I dont use it at all (only 15 GB). How can I disable this drive ? I try in Device manager, but shows me only one HDD (with no partition).

thank you, guys.

Posted 5 months ago #

Lighthouse

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For this you need Disk Management
Press the "Win" & "R" keys
Type in "diskmgmt.msc" (without the quotes), press <Enter>
There you can delete the partition, and then extend the partition to the left of it to regain the space.

Posted 5 months ago #

firbec

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What hapened with data on this drive, if I delete partition ? Will data goes bye bye ???
I just want to hide this drive and data to stay in it. Maybe next year I enable drive again and use thise image file.

Lighthouse, thanks a lot for you helpfull answers.

Posted 5 months ago #

jd2066

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Yes you will lose all data on the partition by deleting the partition.
Why do you want to hide the partition? Also what program do you use to write the image to the partition?

Posted 5 months ago #

firbec

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I have DELL computer and when I bought it, there was image file on D drive from DELL guys. But I really dont need to watch D drive every day, becuse I dont need him. So I would like to hide D drive. Its simple, but I dont know how to do.

Posted 5 months ago #

Lighthouse

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Did Dell supply any CD/DVDs with the computer?

Posted 5 months ago #

jd2066

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Ok. In that case it's the Dell Recovery partition.
There are a couple ways you can hide it.
1. Remove the drive letter.
Go into Disk Management
Right click on the drive and click "Change the drive letter".
Select D: and click Remove.
2. Hide the drive in Windows Explorer.
There is a registry tweak to hide the drive just in Windows Explorer. I'll have to look online and figure out what it is.
Edit: One article on this is at http://www.lancelhoff.com/2008.....indows-xp/

Posted 5 months ago #

Lighthouse

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I wasn't aware that Dells shipped with a D:Recovery partition. After a quick google, it seems it is a new thing for them.
Heres some info
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.htm

Edit. This seems a bit dangerous to me. Making it so easy to restore to Factory settings so easily.
Also. If the partition was "disabled", how do you get to it easily if you need it?

Posted 5 months ago #