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Hard Drive has 2 Drive Letter Assignments by RonnieSan May 6, 2005 8:39PM PDT A few days ago, one of my hard drives had an additional drive letter assigned to it. Understanding drives, partitions, and volumes in Windows 7. A partition is an area of a hard disk. But, as with the drive to repeal the ACA, they face the risk of withdrawing government benefits that many of their own voters rely on. Windows gives you a warning message that some programs will not work when you change drive letters (only those that rely on drive letters. I'll dare to venture even further in the past: The 'A:' Drive used to be the first 5.25' diskettes drive. The 'B:' Drive used to be the other, the SECOND 5.25' diskettes drive When hard disks came into the personal computer scene, the next lo. “ Some programs that rely on drive letters might not run correctly. Do you want to continue?” I continued and proceded to try again to change the letter drive from J to I and this time the drive letter I was available in the drop down list. Once again, when I was in the process of doing so, a Disk Management message window popped up saying.
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This issue has been floating around since I started working with Windows 7. The drive is still accessible when you double-click it. SOMETIMES the red will disappear after the drive has been accessed, other times it will not.
Some Programs That Rely On Drive Letters Example
NOTE: if the shared drive has a red 'X' but the drive is not accessible then it's a different issue. This will only work when the drive has a red 'X' and IS accessible
5 Steps total
Step 1: You notice a red 'X' on one or more shared drives
The symptom introduces itself as a red 'X' over a network shared drive. Some programs rely on network drives and may have issues due to the red 'X'. Which may point you in this diredction
Step 2: **********Back up your registry, before making any changes**********
This is a must, if anything goes wrong (i.e.you delete the wrong key) then you can roll back the registry
Step 3: Check the following registry key
HKEY)CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftwindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMountPoints2
Delete anything with ## in front of it and any other key under the MountPoints2 (do not delete the MountPoints2 itself) folder. This includes any folders with Curly Brackets '{}', CPC and letters (E,F,G, etc...)
All you should see is the MountPoints2 folder and sub-folders
Step 4: Then go to this registry key
HKEY)_USERSusersidSoftwareMicrosoftwindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMountPoints2
and do the same same thing as before, Delete anything with ## in front of it and any other key under the MountPoints2 (do not delete the MountPoints2 itself) folder. This includes any folders with Curly Brackets '{}', CPC and letters (E,F,G, etc...)r.
(sometimes this key doesn't have anything in it but I like to clear it anyway)
Step 5: Restart the computer
Run a normal restart. When you log in the next time the drives should no longer have red 'X' over them.
Some Programs That Rely On Drive Letters For A
This is a workaround for this issue as I have yet to see Microsoft announce a 'real' fix for it. The issue can arise again for unknown reasons. Another if you want to make this a little quicker (sometimes there can be hundreds of entries in the MountPoints2 registry area) then backup the MountPoints2 reg key and import it next time you see the issue.
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- JalapenoD_Green Jan 23, 2014 at 05:17am
its good to see that people like you are around to post solutions that microsoft wont,
thanks much appreciated. - MaceErikN Mar 10, 2014 at 02:04pm
It's true that this can happen for all sorts of reasons but it is frustrating when it won't go away.
- Serranobillclark2 Apr 21, 2015 at 03:58pm
Unfortunately this method did not work for our users with this issue.
- JalapenoMr. Incredible Sep 15, 2017 at 07:16am
I solved the network drive not connected status, by having a small file on the network drive that i sync in windows. So now the drive will be activated and the red cross does not appear
- AnaheimIvan Valenti Feb 7, 2018 at 03:39pm
good job m8, it's work.
I don't understand why microsoft ignore and doesn't release a patch for this issue. - JalapenoLena Mar 1, 2018 at 10:30pm
We're still seeing this in Windows 10 even with Windows 2012 R2 server's GPO mapping the drive. Unfortunately this fix didn't work for us.
- SonoraBrian1826 May 3, 2018 at 02:36pm
Mr. Incredible, How did you set up the sync? Are you using offline folders?
- Pimientospicehead-micv2 Nov 27, 2018 at 11:56pm
I doubt that this is the correct way, also the way over synchronization is only oncealing the problem (of course, available offline drives won´t have the red cross but they will use tons of GB of your harddisk for the synchronization process itself).
The post is a bit older but there are still countless people with the problem described here. I was one of them. I had two computers in the same network environment, with the same Windows builds but different hardware, one of which had the 'red cross' problem, the other with apparently the same configuration.
For hours I tried all solutions that I found on the net about
- Registry entries
- Group Policy
- offline synchronization (do not do it, the red cross disappears, but depending on the network drive in the background, a large amount of data is used for synchronization).
- Batch files were out of the question
- Energy settings of the systemI thought about what's different about both systems and came up with the idea that it's probably the network adapter itself (since both computers are on the same switch, I dismissed the idea that it might be related to the switch).
So I looked more closely at the settings of the adapter and found the setting 'wait for connection' (right click on properties ->configuration->advanced tab-> it is in the list below). I set this from 'auto' to 'on'. In addition, I disabled only the quick start among the windows energy options.These two small interventions brought the result that the computer from the start does not now come up with the red crosses.
Give it a try: The only logical explanation for the problem is that it's on the network adapter itself. That's why some have the problem and others do not.t. So it brings nothing if you disable the quick start in Windows, but the network adapter does not know that he should wait for the connection. So go also to the network adapter settings and tell the adapter that he has to wait - thats all.
Other adapters do not require a disabled quick start or other configurations. If you have the red cross problem, try it.