Hard Drive Shows as MS Office Icon in My Computer

I have 2 hard drives and a CD-ROM. My hard drives are C:, D: and E:
for the CD-ROM. The problem I'm having is with my D: drive. Right now
it shows up in My Computer as a MS Office Icon instead of the regular
hard drive icon. When I right click on the drive I get the following
options: Open; Explore; Find; Auto Play; Configure; Install; Format;
Create Shortcut; Properties. It's acting like it's a CD-ROM drive but
it's really a hard drive. I tried clicking on Install and it started
installing MS Office 2000 but there were files missing. So what I did
is put MS Office CD in the CD-ROM and copied the files to the D:
drive. After this procedure I was able to install MS Office from the
D: drive and I thought maybe after it was installed the D: drive icon
would change back to the normal icon but it still shows as a MS Office
icon.

When I go into Properties of D: this is what I get:
Local Disk
Fat32
Used: 509Mb
Free: 7.32GB
Capacity: 7.82GB

In Fdisk this is what I get:

Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage
1 3063 100%
C: 3063
2 32232 24207 25%
D: 8025

If I delete all the files of the D: drive using Shift + Del it says
the files have been deleted but as soon as I reboot the computer all
the files show up again. The same thinh happens if I format the hard
drive using DOS or Windows. It goes through the motion of formatting
the drive but when I go back into My Computer nothing has happened to
the drive. I've run Scan Disk on the drive and it doesn't detect any
errors. I've been trying to get this figured out but I'm not having
much luck and it's getting very frustrating. 1. Is there a way to get
rid of the MS Office icon and get the regular hard drive icon to show
up for my D: drive? 2. Is there a way to get more then 7.82GB out of
my 60GB hard drive?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

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dcgapg wrote:


When I go into Properties of D: this is what I get:
Local Disk
Fat32
Used: 509Mb
Free: 7.32GB
Capacity: 7.82GB

In Fdisk this is what I get:

Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage
1 3063 100%
C: 3063
2 32232 24207 25%
D: 8025

up for my D: drive? 2. Is there a way to get more then 7.82GB out of
my 60GB hard drive?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

You don't mention the age of the computer but it appears that your BIOS has
a limit of 8GB for hard drives.

During the boot sequence try entering the BIOS' setup utility.
If you have an option that lets the BIOS find the drive automatically select
that option.
Save the settings and reboot.

*IF* this works you'll likely have to re-format the drive an re-install the
software.

If such an option is not available in the BIOS:

Check the 'Master / Slave' jumper(s) on the hard drive. Most drives have a
setting that limits the capacity available to the system in order to
accomodate older BIOS'.
If you find the drive to be set that way change the jumper(s) setting(s) to
show the drive as Master or Slave.

Check the CD or floppy diskette supplied with the hard drive for a 'disk
installation' or 'disk setup' utility.
This might go by the name of 'Data Lifeguard' (Western Digital),
'MaxBlast' (Maxtor), 'EZ-Drive' (Seagate, as I recall).
Such software will allow the system to see the full hard drive.

Check the website of the manufacturer of the motherboard for an updated
BIOS.
Your BIOS may be upgradeable using'flash' software available from the
motherboard manufacturer.
If you can use this method be careful. A failure during the flash process
will usually result in a non-usable BIOS and motherboard.



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Ron n1zhi

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