A cry for help!
I found this very well-written explanation of my problem through Googe Groups but alas – there are no replies!
I have the same problems only I have one E: drive (which I have converted to C: using subst)
I hope you can help me.
Thanks so much!
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Subject: Recycle bin hides files from virtual drive
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:10:37 -0800
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I have a problem to which I know the CAUSE, but not the solution!
Background: I have 2 hard disks. Where most people have C: and D:, my C: got re-lettered to g: by mistake when I formatted it before installing XP, so XP is now on G: and I don’t have a C:
This causes its own problem – not having a C: causes explorer/IE not to diplay icons next to files in favourites and some pop-up dialogs. The solution is to set up a virtual drive from the command line using “subst c: g:”. This this gives me a C: in My Computer which is a mirror image of G: and can be used as if it were a
physical drive.
When files are deleted from D:, recycle bin behaviour is normal, but with files from G: (or C:), the recycle bin hides the files and refreshes about 1/sec. I can empty the recycle bin and the confirmation dialog queries the right number of files for deletion, even though I can only see those files on D:. I cannot however, restore the C: or G: files as I can’t see them to select them.
Clicking “Restore all files” restores any files to D: but not C:/G:. Further attempts to restore the remaining C:/G: files result only in the Windows error beep.
I need one of two solutions:
1. A fix for the erroneous recycle bin behaviour, caused, I presume, because the “offending” files appear to exist twice on the system.
2. A way of re-lettering g: back to c: WITHOUT re-installing XP. It’s the system and boot volume, so the letter can’t be canged from comupter management, like other drives…
Help!
