Extra logical drive??

[stripy]

I have win98 with three FAT32 partitions (C,D,E). I started a system from boot diskette and used readntfs a few days ago (copied a few files to my D disk). When I restarted, PC wouldn't boot from disk on IDE3 (ATA100, RAID). When I switched to IDE1, it started but another logical drive was inserted as E:, and my E moved to F. But on the new drive there is nothing, I can't even access it.
I checked my disk with scandisk and with a couple of disk editors. Acronis DE saw three partitions. WinHex also noticed no problems on physical disk (but also saw 4 logical drives), while DiskEdt couldn't display the last Extended MBR. FDISK also couldn't find logical drive info on Extended partition. I checked this also manually and noticed no problems.
So the question is, where did the system find this new logical drive and how to get rid of it. All files on my drives are normally accessible.
If I find no solution I'll have to reformat, but I'd really rather at least find out how this was done.

 

[wolluf]

Try this utility

http://www.lpacomputers.telinco.co.uk/PD.zip

 

[jmatt]

Don't know why , here is more info to the wolluf post & if needed more utilities .

http://www.macarlo.net/pdisk0603.htm

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http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html

Freeware .
WIPE OUT : as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your hard drive. For those
times when an industrial strength cleaner is needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have
left behind. A readme file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL data
from the Hard Drive.

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Delpart.exe From NT 3.51, this utility can delete extended NTFS,
Lilo, and just about any other type of partition .
DELPART is a DOS based utility that will remove NTFS partitions from
hard drives. FDISK is unable to remove some types of NTFS partitions.
DELPART can wipe clean a hard drive, then you can use FDISK to create
partitions normally.

http://www.bootdisk.com

http://www.michalferber.com/downloads.asp

http://www.2e.org/files.htm