Local Disk (E:) showing in My Computer

Question

Recently I have the Local E hard drive entry showing in the My Computer window.  Prior to this showing, all that ever showed was Local Disk (C:) and my A drive and CD rom drive designation.   Any ideas what may have caused this E designation to be added to the My Computer display?   I am running Windows XP Home addition and have free space of 85 GB's on my root drive.   Thank you.

jankerson · Answer

What size is the drive? How much space?

shesagordie · Answer

Gongpr.   Check XP's 'Disk Management' for the size of the E: drive.   Bev.

Gongpr · Answer

The drive is 39 mb, with 32.3 mb free space.

shesagordie · Answer

Gongpr.   This seems to be the Dell hidden diagnostic partition, therefore the following post may apply   http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_harddrive&message.id=61632   Bev.

Gongpr · Answer

Bev,

Thank you. I read the related message that you referenced and I will check the Roxio site.

I did install the Roxio CD Creator 6 and that's when I noticed the new Local E drive appearing.

Thanks again.

Phil

shesagordie · Answer

Gongpr.   That certainly seems to be the cause, this has been an ongoing problem and I've not read of a upgrade for it.  Dell support is aware of this and supposedly was working on a fix.   Good luck.   Bev.

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