Harddisk Question

[basjke]

Hi All,I experience some strange harddisk details on my computer which I can't explain.Hopefully somebody else can help me out of this.First of all I will tell you about my computer configuration.I have 3 different internal harddisks installed.C disk which is 20 gb and hosts my operating system(windows xp).D disk 200 gb but completely empty and E disk which is 320 gb and on which I store all my files.So when I explore my disks C will show me a folder named D that is 80 mb large and contains the subfolders C,L and M.These foldes again contain many subfolders which are named with only 1 to maximum 3 letters.Does anyone knows what this D folder stands for.

Further on when I go to the properties of My D disk it will show used space 70,3 Mb however it is completely empty.When I explore the D disk it shows that it only contains 85 bytes.I already did a format but the properties don't change.Why It tells me 70,3 Mb used space if there is notting on it?I have in my folder options the "show hidden files" checked and "hide protected operating systems" unchecked so it should show me everything that's on the disk.

Can somebody explain please.

Also C and E disk are named local disk while D disk is named new volume.

Addittional info C and D disks are ide while E disk I on Sata.

One more thing.The Sata disk has always the removable hardware icon in the language bar while it is internal and connected to the correct Sata port.How can I have that icon removed.

Well I think I took enough of your time by now,please forgive me for not being smart enough myself.

[MrSnrang]

That information you don't see is the disk format information.

You see this on all hard disks that are formatted and even on all flash drives.

It is impossible to remove this information and use that disk.

[DamianMavis]

I'm not an expert, but "NEW VOLUME" I thought meant the disk hasn't been configured and set up to be used yet. Something along those lines... its a hazy memory of when I last saw NEW VOLUME. Can you move files to it and vice versa?

Maybe click on start, right click MY COMPUTER, click Manage, click disk management and it will show you your drives and thier status.

Damian