Citizen Bob <spam@uce.gov> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

>> They are getting confused by something. It isnt currently clear by what.

> If I change the drive letter, it takes effect immediately for one
> of the device drivers (the one with the label) but not the other.

THERE ARE NO SEPARATE DEVICE DRIVERS.

> I have to reboot to get it to take effect on the other one.

> There is something going on with what Windows calls a "generic
> device". I see it in the Install/Remove Hardware utility. Sometimes
> when I add a partition in Disk Management, it attempts to assign the
> next drive letter in the alphabetic sequence, but can't because "that
> letter is already in use" or somesuch.

Thats mangled completely too. It should be able to work out what is free.

> But there is no such device to be found. If I then remove the generic device
> with the Add/Remove Hardware, it frees up the hidden letter and I can use it.

You've stuffed something up, presumably in the process of
using that abortion of a RAID, but it could just as easily have
been you use of whatever it was you used to clone the drive too.

> Also, in the Registry there is key that shows Mounted Devices.
> It has an entry for the hidden drive letter that can't be used.
> If I clear out that key, it becomes available.

Presumably something else keeps putting it back.

>> Yes, but since you that showed up after the stupid raid
>> system was installed, its almost certainly been done by that.

> When I built this machine and did an IPU to install Win2K, I ran it
> very briefly without that RAID contraption. But I did not use the
> defragger so I do not know if there were two device drivers per
> partition. I then installed the RAID unit and kept it for about 6
> months. The corrupt NTFS partition problem showed up immediately.

> I contacted the Product Line Manager in Taiwan and she was
> eager to work with me to find the source of the problem. But
> after a short period she turned cold - I suspect she discovered
> that there was something radically wrong with her product.

Or she decided that you were too bone headed to bother with.

Kony clearly has.

> I contacted my vendor and he contacted the US importer and they
> decided that the product was not functioning properly, so I was given
> a full cash refund. That's when I began making clones for backup.

>>> He is an independent residential mortgage broker and
>>> every time he puts his phone to his ear, he makes money.

>> Just get him a cordless phone so he can
>> still do that even when chained to the PC.

> He has a cordless phone, and it is constantly in use.

A retrospective abortion may well be the only solution.