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Blarneystone

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:45 pm
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One of the computers on our network (Dell desktop w. Western Digital
40GB drive, windows xp) has a "Y:" drive on it. This drive shows the
exact same capacity of C: but there is nothing in it. I believe it's
a "ghost" of some sort, but I don't know what's causing it or how to
get rid of it.

I can create a folder and move files to the folder and it eats up
memory on C: drive too... so there is a link there someplace.

Any ideas on what this is? I've never seen something like this
before.

Thanks!

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:45 pm
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:29:13 -0000 Blarneystone <BradIsaac.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

| One of the computers on our network (Dell desktop w. Western Digital
| 40GB drive, windows xp) has a "Y:" drive on it. This drive shows the
| exact same capacity of C: but there is nothing in it. I believe it's
| a "ghost" of some sort, but I don't know what's causing it or how to
| get rid of it.
|
| I can create a folder and move files to the folder and it eats up
| memory on C: drive too... so there is a link there someplace.
|
| Any ideas on what this is? I've never seen something like this
| before.

Try putting a very compressable file (same text over and over and over)
in the Y: drive and see if it uses up C: space as much as it uses up Y:
space.

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:52 pm
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:29:13 -0000, Blarneystone
<BradIsaac RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:

>One of the computers on our network (Dell desktop w. Western Digital
>40GB drive, windows xp) has a "Y:" drive on it. This drive shows the
>exact same capacity of C: but there is nothing in it. I believe it's
>a "ghost" of some sort, but I don't know what's causing it or how to
>get rid of it.
>
>I can create a folder and move files to the folder and it eats up
>memory on C: drive too... so there is a link there someplace.
>
>Any ideas on what this is? I've never seen something like this
>before.
>
>Thanks!

I suspect you have unintentionally mapped a network drive
(Logical drive letter Y) to someplace on that drive.

Copy a specific filename to that Y drive then search for it
on C:, or just just go to the system hosting the C: drive,
right click on the phantom and choose unmount or disconnect.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:45 pm
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On Oct 6, 4:52 pm, kony <s....RemoveThis@spam.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:29:13 -0000, Blarneystone
>
> <BradIs....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >One of the computers on our network (Dell desktop w. Western Digital
> >40GB drive, windows xp) has a "Y:" drive on it. This drive shows the
> >exact same capacity of C: but there is nothing in it. I believe it's
> >a "ghost" of some sort, but I don't know what's causing it or how to
> >get rid of it.
>
> >I can create a folder and move files to the folder and it eats up
> >memory on C: drive too... so there is a link there someplace.
>
> >Any ideas on what this is? I've never seen something like this
> >before.
>
> >Thanks!
>
> I suspect you have unintentionally mapped a network drive
> (Logical drive letter Y) to someplace on that drive.
>
> Copy a specific filename to that Y drive then search for it
> on C:, or just just go to the system hosting the C: drive,
> right click on the phantom and choose unmount or disconnect.

Ok, thanks I believe I found it. They had some document converter app
that allows you to convert docs into pdfs on the fly. Apparently, it
maps itself as a drive.
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