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by Member 29730750

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I am running Windows XP home edition on my laptop. I have a factory-partioned hard drive, C & D. There is a CD/DVD drive named F and a memory stick named E. I have had the computer for over a year; Sony Viao #VGNA130B. Have had no problems with this computer until a few weeks ago. Here's the problem:

I had been using Dreamweaver 8 by Macromedia. It is an educational version that was sold to me in error, but that is another long story. I was not having any problems until about 3 weeks into using the program. I noticed that in the files panel in DW8, it was showing two D drives. The extra D drive is an exact duplicate of the other. When I save a file to one D drive, it shows up in the other. The icon next to both D drives is a drive icon. This began when one day I opened DW8 and the program told me it could not find my root directory (for the DW8 site, I assumed). The program is working just fine, it is just showing the extra D drive, which annoys me.

When opening files through DW8 the file directory shows the extra D drive as a folder, but still has the same contents as the D drive with the drive icon.

Checking other programs, I am now seeing it in other Adobe/Macromedia programs as well.

I have been working with Macromedia support on this and they had me doing many things but nothing corrects it. I have uninstalled DW8, cleared the registry of any Macromedia files, re-installed DW8 and opened in safe mode. All these things have not corrected the problem.

I am unsure if this is a DW8 problem that propagated to other programs, or if it is a Windows XP problem. None of my Microsoft programs are showing two D drives when opening/looking at files through the individual programs.

I have screen shots of what I am talking about at these links:

www.roughandreadydesigns.com/images/duplicate_d_drive.gif
www.roughandreadydesigns.com/images/duplicate_d_drive_2.gif

Does anyone know what has happened, or knows how to fix it? I had one person in the DW8 forum tell me to just ignore it if it's not hurting anything. I don't want to ignore this problem, I want to fix it.

I am not very computer savvy, so technical responses won't help me. Step by step directions I can follow.

Any help would be so greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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by hyde03

Try going to my computer, then click manage, navagate to disk management. On the tool menu go to view , click on top view, and check disk view. In your window it should show all the disk or drives that are showing up in Windows Explorer and this is where you may have to play around with it a little. First see if all the drives are listed as healthy, then try to rescan the disk individulally by highlighting the disk you want to rescan and go back to the tools menu and click on actions , all task then click click rescan. after doing this if you are still showing two healthy "D" drives, try to delete by going to tools action, all task, mapping, there you can choose to remove one of the two D drives.. If all else fails you may want to try using the settings as. I would write zeros to the hard at least once and reformat then reinstall your O/S. Be sure to back up anything important and before retreieving and reinstalling your backed up data be sure to scan with a good anti virus and testing with Microsofts malicious software removal tool found on Microsofts website. Hope this helps and good luck.

by Member 29730750

Well, I got as far as rescanning, but in this location, it did not show two D drives. It showed
Disk 0, which contained a drive that was not named, a C drive and a D drive. The C drive is the "system" and they all showed healthy. The partition style is MBR.

The other drives shown were Disk 1 removable (E:) and CD-ROM 0 DVD(F:)

I checked through DW8 after rescanning and the extra D drive is still there.

I will check for malicious software. I already continually run AVG.

Thanks for your help.

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