Hi. I have a computer which thinks it has a C:drive, but it is not actually installed. At one point I think the owner had Norton and ghosted the drive. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? Is it in the L2 CACHE? There is another harddrive where I set up Windows XP PRO, SP2, that is labeled D:drive. I have deleted almost everything on the ghost C:drive, but I can't remove or format it. It's not actually a problem except that SEVERAL programs automatically write to C:? Thanks.What happens if you Right Click C Drive and go to Properties? What do you get?I get the standard menu like if you right-clicked on any drive - Open, explore, search, format, rename, properties, etc. No delete.Click on Properties and in your next reply, post what's on the screen.When I right-click on c:, go to properties, it shows Used space=3.13gb, free space=6.2gb, Capacity=9.75gb, file system=fat32, Type=local disk.
Originally there was a 10 gig HDD installed that ran the operating system, but I removed it for an 80 gig.It's possible either the old hard drive is still in there (10GB hard drive = ~<10gb) or the 80GB hard drive is partitioned.
Do the two hard drive Capacity numbers add up to ~80?It's still there...
What data is on it ? ?Physically the 10 gig HDD is removed from the mobo. The 80 gb is not partitioned. On the 10 Gb was the original windows and all associated folders - My documents, program files, etc. I removed the windows folders and as many of the rest as I could, but the programs files won't delete. It shows a "cannot delete error" - ImonNT.exe, access is denied. Make sure disk in not full or right protected. And when I try to remove the old Documents and Settings folder, I get "cannot delete - OP8RSBUV directory is not empty. This is located in temp. internet files, but won't let me delete. As a result of these files, I cannot reformat the drive either, hoping that by clearing it out, I would then have the option of deleting it. Didn't know what else to try. I reset the MOBO bios. This 10 gig drive does Not show up there!Strange.....

Just to make sure, you removed the WINDOWS folder from C drive?

Also, are you 200% CERTAIN the drive is not partitioned?yes and yes. Real head-scratcher, huh? I've been teaching and building computers for over 15 years. I've never run across this before.Awfully strange indeed...

Have you tried deleting the contents of C drive in Safe Mode?That's what I'm going to try next. I go over there (where the computer is) later today.All right, keep us posted.