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  1. Posts : 122
    se7en
       #1

    I did a no no


    I turned my recovery Drive into a wireless adapter or something, it has an Icon of a wireless USB adapter with green lines coming from it. Its a WinXP PC Desktop. How can I change it back to a normal Drive?
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    Win7 HP (x64)/Win7 Ultimate (x64)
       #2

    Hi

    Drive Icon - Change (thanks to Shawn)
    Tutorials is great place to hang-out

    Regards
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  3.    #3

    Just the icon? Is the partition intact?
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  4. Posts : 122
    se7en
    Thread Starter
       #4

    The pc sees it as a USB Wireless network I guess, since when I connect a real USB wireless Adapter it is named Wireless Connection 2.

    What do you mean partition? im not that acquainted with the terms.

    Ty for the replies.
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    Win7 HP (x64)/Win7 Ultimate (x64)
       #5

    heaumanepunk said:
    The pc sees it as a USB Wireless network I guess, since when I connect a real USB wireless Adapter it is named Wireless Connection 2.

    Sorry I was way-off on this one - better grab some zzzz's
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    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #6

    If this happened recently you could do a System Restore to solve the problem. It will restore your computer to an earlier point in time, your documents should not be affected.

    BTW this is a XP comp?
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    heaumanepunk said:

    What do you mean partition? im not that acquainted with the terms.

    .
    You said your Recovery drive has had it's icon replaced with wireless icon, correct?

    A Recovery partition holds a factory image which when run will recover your computer to factory condition.

    Is this the Recovery partition (drive) on your HD and is it still intact - check contents after unhiding files at Control Panel>Folder Options>View?

    Will it make the Recovery Disks or run if you cue it up from Windows or press the keys to run it from boot - just cue it up to see.

    Or are you referring to an External Storage drive?
    Last edited by gregrocker; 05 Sep 2010 at 16:32.
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    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #8

    Post a screen shot of Disk Management here please. Good tutorial for doing that here:

    A Preferred Method of Uploading/Posting Screen Shots


    To get to Disk Management, click on Start and type disk management and press Enter.
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