The letters on my Drives changed

[skippy647]

I was running my computer fine and then all of the sudden, my drive letters changed on me. I was unsure on how to approach this because I know using the disk management panel can screw your computer up if you're stupid with it.

Here's a picture of my drives:
http://puu.sh/iy6Lr/e216f13fa8.png

The thing is, I do not have a second cd/dvd drive. The "F:" drive is supposed to be the "Domis Hard Drive". I don't know how this cd drive appeared or why the computer thinks there is one.

 

[i7Baby]

Why have you got 2 system reserve partitions? More than one OS on your PC?

 

[RimStain]

go into disk management and right click on your two system reserved partitions. Then 'change drive letter and path' remove them and they wont show. You can use this to re-label drives as well

 

[skippy647]

go into disk management and right click on your two system reserved partitions. Then 'change drive letter and path' remove them and they wont show. You can use this to re-label drives as well

ok cool. this is all a learning process for me to an extent. Removing the drive letter for the system partition wont screw anything up? the more I think about it, the more it starts to make more sense.

 

[skippy647]

Why have you got 2 system reserve partitions? More than one OS on your PC?

when I was new to building computers, for some reason, I thought that having an operating system on two hard drives was a good idea. I dont know what the hell I was thinking.

 

[RimStain]

yeah they are supposed to be hidden so people don't fuck with them.

You can delete the system reserved partition you don't need anymore as well - just make sure its the right one 😛

 

[i7Baby]

Yes - delete the reserve partition from the non OS drive.

 

[skippy647]

Ok thanks for the help there BUT, what of cd drive "F:"
http://puu.sh/iy7Hu/a4feb63c0b.jpg

I dont have a second cd drive. If i try to eject it, it gives me an error. if I eject the "D:" drive, it will actually eject so I know that one is the real cd drive. For some reason it randomly appeared.

UPDATE: I restarted my computer like a PROFESSIONAL.
For some reason it fixed my error and the drive does not appear. Lol who know why it was registering an extra cd drive but, oh well. All fixed.

 

[RimStain]

do you use Daemon tools or something similar for mounting images (.iso)

 

[i7Baby]

Remove the un-needed reserve partition and see what you then have.