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EUREKA!! Annoyance banished!! And with a little encouragement, I'll tell you how I did it. O.K., I can't think with all the begging.....

I went on a utilities hunt that took up most of the night. After a bit of frustration, and going thru 2 different retail packages, I hit the jackpot with number 3....Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite. After slogging thru hours of trying to force a piece of software into doing what I wanted it to do, it only took about 10 minutes - including installation - for Paragon and I to wipe that little bugger off my system and out of my life; and all I had to do was point Paragon at the little sucker, click delete, confirm and ok. Nothing else was quicker or cleaner.

If you want to know more, just e-mail or IM me and I'll share the details. I am reluctant to mark this one solved, but it sure worked for me!

RJsDad said:

EUREKA!! Annoyance banished!! And with a little encouragement, I'll tell you how I did it. O.K., I can't think with all the begging.....

I went on a utilities hunt that took up most of the night. After a bit of frustration, and going thru 2 different retail packages, I hit the jackpot with number 3....Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite. After slogging thru hours of trying to force a piece of software into doing what I wanted it to do, it only took about 10 minutes - including installation - for Paragon and I to wipe that little bugger off my system and out of my life; and all I had to do was point Paragon at the little sucker, click delete, confirm and ok. Nothing else was quicker or cleaner.

If you want to know more, just e-mail or IM me and I'll share the details. I am reluctant to mark this one solved, but it sure worked for me!

Hum sounds pretty cool RJs Dad I know you bought this now but you could have done that for free with the trial download but hey a good tool now you have got it:)

FallenAnjel said:

I joined this forum just so I could reply to this and maybe help others in the process. I found this thread because I had the same problem just a few minutes ago when I restarted my laptop. First thought was a virus. Thankfully it's not. Turns out I had hooked up a TomTom last week and it wasn't connected when I restarted so the laptop was looking for it. I shut down the icon in the task bar and !Voila! all fixed.

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That is a rally neat post dsperber I didn't know that anything had been deleted plus I have always got the cannot do message if I have accidentally gone to delete that partition - way back when I didn't really know much at all I should add.
The lettering too is quite odd as i have had others ask if they can change the C: to something else why I have no idea but one cannot account for all individuals reasons eh?

I am thinking maybe there were two 100MB partitions because as you rightly say it wouldn't run even if it were deleted and the only way I know of doing that while keeping the large partition is to use another machine to carry out the instruction.

PS even a screen shot of the DISKPART readout would be good too