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USB hard drive shows as Removable; WE shows as Fixed

Posted: 26 Dec 2006 21:53
by j_c_hallgren
I have an external USB hard drive that has three partitions...
Have made a couple of partial screen prints to clarify...

When I plug it in and look at it via Win Expl, it shows properly as three fixed drives with all three label names as given...Drive E is labeled as "JCH-C SG", etc...
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But in XY, it shows as name "Removable Disk (E)" with removable icon and then two fixed drives with correct names/icons...

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Seems to be a minor bug here...and maybe hard to test without a similar setup...I'm willing as always to help!

Re: USB hard drive shows as Removable; WE shows as Fixed

Posted: 28 Dec 2006 00:25
by John Bee
j_c_hallgren wrote:When I plug it in and look at it via Win Expl, it shows properly as three fixed drives with all three label names as given...Drive E is labeled as "JCH-C SG", etc...

But in XY, it shows as name "Removable Disk (E)" with removable icon and then two fixed drives with correct names/icons...
XY 5.50.004 and Win2K here. Both XY and WE shows my stick as Removeable Drive.

Posted: 28 Dec 2006 08:07
by j_c_hallgren
I agree that both show my USB flash drives correctly as Removable, but this is a Seagate 40GB laptop HDD in a USB enclosure, so...yes, technically it's also removable, but why should one of the three partitions show differently than the other two? Especially when Win Expl doesn't!

Posted: 28 Dec 2006 11:46
by John Bee
j_c_hallgren wrote:I agree that both show my USB flash drives correctly as Removable, but this is a Seagate 40GB laptop HDD in a USB enclosure, so...
Ah crap, I'm sorry. I didn't even see the HD in an enclosure thing. Don't know how I could have missed that obvious piece of info.

Posted: 28 Dec 2006 19:40
by j_c_hallgren
John Bee wrote:Ah crap, I'm sorry. I didn't even see the HD in an enclosure thing. Don't know how I could have missed that obvious piece of info.
Maybe...because in original post, I only said:
j_c_hallgren wrote:I have an external USB hard drive that has three partitions
which isn't quite as obvious as my next reply was... :wink: