hard drive

167 GB is about right. It's just a marketing ploy by the hard drive
companies, one which they're being sued over.

"Mano Geezer" <steve@willis71.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bn44d7$s1u$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...

> Hard drive manufacturers advertise 1mb as 1000bytes. But with windows 1mb

is

> 1024bytes. My western digital is 180gb but is 167gb with windows. But that
> seems to be quite alot lost maybe the motherboard don't support it or

needs

> an update
>
>

I have divided my hard drive in to 2 gig partitions. The
partition that contains the programs and files to run xp is
down to 98 mega bytes. Where can I find info on the
programs and files that can be safely removed?

I have a 6 gig C drive and a n 18 gig D drive however I
can only use a little over 7 gigs on drive D Do I need to
partition and if so how on xp Thanx so much for any help I
might recieve H hoover

I have a hard drive in My Computer that does not exist.
I can not delete from that window. Looked in device
manager and that drive is not there. How can I get it out
of My Computer?

Thanks

Hi,

Probably a namespace item, you can remove it from the registry if you are
positive this is a false item. Start/run regedit, navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\MyComp
uter\NameSpace

Look at the subkeys below this level, one of them should correspond to the
unwanted icon. You can delete the key to remove the unwanted reference.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a hard drive in My Computer that does not exist.
> I can not delete from that window. Looked in device
> manager and that drive is not there. How can I get it out
> of My Computer?
>
> Thanks

Have a hard drive listed in "my computer" that does not
exist. Tried to correct using regedit, but found no icons
under namespace folder. What else can I try?

I did a system restore recently, Before this I had a K:
drive now I don't. I've tried searching my whole computer
to find it & it's not there can someone please help me?

Michelle, what was the K:\ drive? Hard drive, cdrom drive? Partition on
hard drive?
"michelle" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I did a system restore recently, Before this I had a K:
> drive now I don't. I've tried searching my whole computer
> to find it & it's not there can someone please help me?