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So I got into work today and I was adding a directory for a new user to your server, Well, I opened my computer on the file server and WTF!

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Has anyone ever seen this before? I've never had this happen and I cant for the life of me figure whats causing it.


Edit: To clarify, my computer is showing 9 more drives then there actually are in the system. Logical disk manager doesnt show any of them neither does the hardware managers.

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RE: Weird Windows Bug
Never seen that.

- Is there any usefull information when you go to Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management (under Storage) ?
- Can you do anything with them when you click on them ?
- Maybe it has anything todo with mounted network harddisks that got disconnected/removed once?

Just pure guessing.
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I've never had network drive mounted to this system, Ussually it's the other way arround.

Under Disk Management it only shows the hard drives that are actually there.

And I cant seem to do anything with them, They all show a capicity of 0 and have no info in the property dialogs except that there of type "Local Disk" and the file system is "RAW"


This did all happen after a cumulative update from microsoft for IE.
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There Virtual Drives. It's like a partition in Windows but it turns a directory into a drive. Now you can delete them with this program I have attached. It should list all the drives in the main list. Then click on each one and click delete. By any chance there is a C:\ or any of your normal drives listed. DO NOT DELETE THEM. Just for safety reasons. Give it a try.

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There are no virtual drives listed.
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Then that is a very odd bug. I have no clue of what it could be. You try uninstalling the patch? Or reverting it back to a previous date?

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Bah, Dern PC. I'll have to try that though I need to back up first.
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