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|    Bateau to All    |
|    Re: phantom drive after deleting partiti    |
|    25 Jan 04 15:49:31    |
   
   XPost: alt.windows95   
   From: Gamera@work.stomping.aza   
      
   >I have a second hard drive that had 2 FAT partitions on it that I pulled   
   >out of my old DOS pc. I added it to a Win 95 pc as secondary master and   
   >then deleted the partitions and reformatted the drive. Now when I open   
   >Explorer or do anything else that displays my drives Windows hangs for a   
   >few seconds then displays the deleted partition as a CD drive. Does   
   >anyone know how to get rid of this?   
      
   Thanks for everyone's help. I booted to safe mode and changed the CD's   
   reserved drive letters from "F: - F:" to "E: - E:" and rebooted and now   
   the problem's gone.   
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