Drive shows in Computer with red X

Drive is a Seagate SATA2 160 GB. It had been wiped (one pass - zeros written) in one W7 computer and any partitions removed.

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

At first, the drive wasn't seen by Windows, with view set as 'Tiles' (which seems to be a W7 default), but when I set the view to Small Icons or List, it appeared. It also opened from there, and is of course, empty.

But the drive icon has a red cross against it, and the name is weird. Like, I'd given it the name 'EIDY' and set its letter as 'X'.

But it shows up (exactly) like this: d(\\CG10)(X)
(There's a colon after the X but if I post it that way, it shows as a smiley face)

Note that the mounting computer is a standalone unit and not connected in by cable or wireless to my other machines, so I'm at a loss to explain the backslashes. Also, 'CG10' was the name of a computer that used to be part of my network.

I'm baffled. Anyone have a clue about the red cross or the apparent network name?

Thanks, LB. I'm not alongside the computer ATM, but I don't think it's a dynamic disk, if that's part of the issue.

I'll take a look tomorrow, about 15 hours hence.

Cheers

teckneeculler said:

But it shows up (exactly) like this: d(\\CG10)(X)
(There's a colon after the X but if I post it that way, it shows as a smiley face)

If you use the advanced editor in your reply you can disable smilies to avoid that.



d(\\CG10)(X:)

Derekimo, thanks. I didn't think of that

OK, I've rechecked the disk and it's definitely BASIC.

Oddly, in Computer Management\Disk Management it shows as:
EIDY (X:)
149.05 GB NTFS
Healthy (Active, Logical drive)

But in Computer it has the red cross and the weird name - d(\\Cg10)(X:)

EDIT: The reason I'm concerned about this 'name\crossed icon' glitch, is that I'm about to experiment with Acronis True Image as an OS recovery system, and the EIDY disk is where I'll store the image.

EDIT: Sorry LB, just saw your post about a screen shot. No prob, I'll do it with Faststone and send it up.

Here are the images. One from Disk Management, the other from Computer.

LB, what more do you need to know? What's missing from the screen grabs I sent?

And, as I said in my first post, the mounting computer is NOT connected to a network. Not by wire, not by wireless, not by gossamer threads.

RAID? No. You can see from the screen shots that there are only 3 disks in the system.
1) C drive
2) EIDY (the problem disk)
3) A 4GB USB memory stick.