Fake partition

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chibicitiberiu

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I don't know why, but now when I came at the computer there is a new partition in "My Computer", automatically assigned the letter Q. It has 0 bytes in size, and RAW file system.
Last thing I remember doing today was installing Office 2010 Beta in the morning...
 
Dude it`s most likely a card reader or some removeable device.As i had that problem, i had all this letters on there and was think where did they all come from.But then i found out,it all the indevidual card readers i got in my one device.
Go into device manager, and see what removable devices you have,check the number and compare them to the amount you can see on my computer, and then if they match up,with the my computer screen visible,click on one of the RSD and disable it,and then you`ll find out which one Q is,because it`ll disappear then just enable them,the same way you disabled them.

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There is nothing connected... I don't even have a card reader.
And if I had, it would appear as a removable drive, not HDD partition.

I cannot find any device that would be related to this... the hard disk has partitions C and D only in hardware settings. Other hardware that appears in the "Hardware" tab of properties window: floppy drive, optical drive, and the virtual optical drive from Daemon Tools.

The weird thing is that it has assigned the letter Q, and normally G would be the next one for me.

It cannot be formatted ("You don't have enough rights"), opened ("Access Denied")...

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Right click "my computer" on the start menu and click "manage". Under storage section click "Disk Management". Find the Q drive right click it and click "delete volume".
 
Partition Magic is also a good application to do this: http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html

Partition Magic Publisher's Description
Partition Magic allows you to create, resize and merge partitions on your hard drive without destroying data. Partition Magic helps organize and protect your data, run multiple operating systems, convert file system types and fix partition table errors.

Features:

· Organize and protect the information on a hard drive
· Easy, step-by-step wizards help with performing partitioning tasks
· Preview the effects of partitioning a hard drive before implementing anything
· Safely manage multiple operating systems
· Partition hard drives as large as 80 GB
· Access and partition external USB drives
· Undelete a deleted partition from rescue disks
· Remotely copy, move, delete, and create partitions across a TCP/IP connection
· Create and run scripts to automate common partitioning tasks
· Shred partitions to ensure the security of corporate data on retiring hard disks
· Convert from one file system or partition type to another without losing data
· Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and Linux ext2/Swap file systems
· Support for Windows XP
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I just deleted Click-To-Run with office 2010, and the fake partition is gone. I'm now installing the Pro version of the suite, that doesn't have this thing... and hopefully it will work okay :)
 
chibicitiberiu said:
I just deleted Click-To-Run with office 2010, and the fake partition is gone. I'm now installing the Pro version of the suite, that doesn't have this thing... and hopefully it will work okay :)
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Cheers for the feedback, where exactly was "Click-To-Run"? In the program files?
 
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