Drive shows in Computer with red X

teckneeculler said:

Then I mounted the drive in another computer, created a new volume on it, then quick-formatted it as a logical partition.

He said Logical.

Layback Bear said:

Try changing your logical partition to Basic NTSF.
Take a read through this tutorial by Brink.

Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk

You said Logical too but posted a tutorial for Dynamic.

teckneeculler said:

Derekimo, thanks. I didn't think of that

You're welcome. :)

You can try this:
Right click on the \\Cg10 drive under Network Location
If you have a Disconnect option, click it
See if that makes the drive listing disappear

LB, you're right - the drive IS listed under 'Network Location'. Which is part of the mystery...

Thanks DavidE, I'll try that when I get back to the workshop.

Heads up: After a couple of reboots, the problem has resolved itself. The drive now has a normal icon and drive letter. Windows never ceases to surprise

Glad to see you have this solved.
I think somehow you had a "bogus or ghost" mapped Network drive entry, but seems it gone now.
:)

Thanks David. Yeah, it's stuff like this that gives techs grey hairs. Or no hairs, like me.

Know what I reckon? We're in the Fred Flintstone era of computing. I liken the situation to the way it was with cars, back in the early 1900's. If you were brave enough to own one, you had to be a fairly adequate mechanic.

So it is today with computers. I mean, they're only tools, after all. Means to an end. Why should we need to know how they work or how to fix them?

One day - maybe - we'll have really reliable computers that rarely, if ever, have problems that they can't solve themselves. And we'll talk to them, conversationally.

I doubt they'll go off the deep end, like HAL or Skynet, but those situations make good entertainment

Oh, and on that score, here's a prediction for the near future: Books will soon be written by computers. Music and art, too, maybe. It's only a matter of sufficient memory and adequate programming.

Actually, now that I think about it, this scenario is likely to be more damaging to the human psyche than killer robots.