Duplicate C & D Drives

[DaffyD®]

While deleting a program, I did a Windows search to be sure that I had

removed all the files on the computer. What I found listed in the search

results were duplicates of the C & D Drives. The program I had deleted was

still listed on the duplicate D Drive but there was no option for deleting

the files. In fact when I tried to reinstall the program, it told me it was

already installed to d:\progra~1 instead of D:\Program Files. I tried going

into MS-DOS to delete the files there but access was denied for all of them.



I went ahead and reinstalled the program but it still shows that it's in the

d:\progra~1 folder. I hope someone can understand what I'm writing about. I

use Acronis True Home Image to back up my C & D drives and this may be

related to that, I don't know. Any ideas as to what is going on? What

additional info do I need to provide?

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If I knew where I was I'd be there now.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

On 7/03/2010 17:01, DaffyD® wrote:

> still listed on the duplicate D Drive but there was no option for deleting

> the files. In fact when I tried to reinstall the program, it told me it was

> already installed to d:\progra~1 instead of D:\Program Files. I tried going

> into MS-DOS to delete the files there but access was denied for all of them.



Hi Daffy



"d:\progra~1" and "D:\Program Files" are probably the same directory.



A directory name "D:\Program Files" uses Long File Names ("LFN"), as

provided by NTFS and FAT32 file systems.



The older FAT file system only supported 8.3 Short File Names ("SFN"),

so long file names get truncated to fit into a 8.3 form, usually with a

tilde "~" at the end.



Go to a Command Prompt on your C: drive, enter "CD \" to go to the root

directory, and then enter "DIR /X". You'll see the directories on your

C: drive in both SFN and LFN form, side by side. Note that "C:\Program

Files" is listed as "C:\Progra~1".



Some older programs, especially 16 bit programs, can only see 8.3 file

names, even when they are looking at an NTFS or FAT32 file system.



So I guess that your D: drive is formatted as FAT, or has Long File

Names disabled for some reason; or that you are looking at it via a

program hat wants to use the older style 8.3 form of naming.



I didn't really understand how D: is a duplicate of C: drive? Are you

replicating the data from C: to D: somehow? Via Acronis? Why? In any

case, the uninstall routine for the application you uninstalled would

probably have no knowledge or awareness of your disk duplication, so it

is only going to look at the directory in knows about on the C: drive -

and not try to uninstall anything from the D: drive. So that part sounds

normal.



Hope it helps,



Andrew



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