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  1. Posts : 13
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    Additional drive appears (drive f) while forematting new drive


    This is a new built computer, I have installed win7 64bit on a 500 gig hard drive (tosheba), this is drive C. Everything works fine!

    I was wanting to use windows 7 backup, so I went and got another 500 gig hard drive (WD), I connected the HD and powered up the computer and that's all I did! Device manager showed the new drive and the primary drive! However the computer did not show the new WD drive, . The new drive was not formatted so with the help of a friend using partdisk I formatted the new WD drive, the new drive now shows up in computer as drive G. But now I also have a drive F, and its 100MB in size. (see screen shot)

    What have I done? and how can I fix it?
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Additional drive appears (drive f) while forematting new drive-b1.jpg   Additional drive appears (drive f) while forematting new drive-b2.jpg  
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  2. Posts : 6,830
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       #2

    Drive F which is your System Reserved partition should be hidden and not have a letter .

    Can you right click on the drive click on Change Drive letter and path and remove the letter ?
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  3. Posts : 13
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    VistaKing said:
    Drive F which is your System Reserved partition should be hidden and not have a letter .

    Can you right click on the drive click on Change Drive letter and path and remove the letter ?

    It does not look like I can remove it safely! Get warning about programs not working (see screen shot) I do get a option to change it... a drop down box appears with letters A_Z
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  4. Posts : 6,830
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    There shouldn't be any files there except for boot files . So you should be good if you click on Yes
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  5. Posts : 13
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    VistaKing said:
    There shouldn't be any files there except for boot files . So you should be good if you click on Yes
    I clicked on REMOVE and got another warning. (screen shot)

    I have nothing backed up!
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  6. Posts : 6,830
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       #6

    When you installed Windows 7 it should automatically make the Systems Reserved partition hidden . Did you install the second hard drive after or before the installation
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  7.    #7

    You can ignore the warning since the System Reserved partition should not have a letter under any circumstances. Remove the letter now before making your backup image.
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  8. Posts : 13
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    VistaKing said:
    When you installed Windows 7 it should automatically make the Systems Reserved partition hidden . Did you install the second hard drive after or before the installation
    I installed the first hard drive about 4 days ago, the 2ed last night! I'm sure I must have done something I should not have done while installing last night. F drive did not appear until last night! If I remember right I was having a problem with what was disk 0 and disk 1.

    I just backed up C drive and "back up and restore ( win 7 program)" wrote to G drive, also made a recovery disk!

    If you think i'm good to go! I try it!

    Thank you for the push!
    Last edited by D Ryan; 09 Jun 2013 at 17:14. Reason: spell
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  9. Posts : 13
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    gregrocker said:
    You can ignore the warning since the System Reserved partition should not have a letter under any circumstances. Remove the letter now before making your backup image.
    To Late! I never done this before but cant I just do the backup again?
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  10.    #10

    Yes, after removing the Sys Reserved letter.
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