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Old January 24th, 2006, 02:40 AM
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Hard Disk Drive - delete?
Hi again! I installed RamBooster, it prompted me to create a new drive for RAM or something like that... So I created Drive Z and named it RAMDisk, but I already have another application that helps me with RAM, so I no longer have a use for Disk Drive Z. I tried deleting it under Computer Management -> Storage, but it's not listed. Any suggestions?

Drive Z uses up 30.9 MB, and nothing is saved on it.
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Old January 24th, 2006, 07:47 AM
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Partition Magic should be able to do it.

Free Trail here http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html
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Old January 24th, 2006, 11:13 AM
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Did you run the programs uninstaller?

If it is a RAM program then i'm assuming that Z is a virtual ram drive.
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Old January 24th, 2006, 11:50 PM
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Yeah, I ran the uninstaller, but the drive stayed there...

Downloaded PartitionMagic, and it reads drives:
PQSERVICE (*: ) FAT Status=None Pri/Log=Primary
Acer (C: ) NTFS Status=Active Pri/Log=Primary
(*) EXTENDED Status=None Pri/Log=Primary
Backup (D: ) NTFS Status=None Pri/Log=Logical

I originally had drives C: and D:, and I added drive Z:
So PartitionMagic isn't detecting it either... PQSERVICE looks pretty important... and the EXTENDED one looks like all of them combined (has a free space of 0 MB)

Just looking at it again.. drive Z is in FAT, so maybe it is the drive I need to delete?
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Old January 24th, 2006, 11:57 PM
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I hate to say this but, unless someone else has a better solution, it might pay to back up anything you wish to keep, then format you drive and do a CLEAN install, nothing like a fresh start.
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Old January 25th, 2006, 07:52 AM
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Well, it's only using up like 31MB... I guess I'll just cut and paste some files into there and use it up. =P Thanks for all the help though!
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