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 dprogra~1 instead of DProgram 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
dprogra~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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[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 dprogra~1 instead of DProgram Files. I tried going
> into MS-DOS to delete the files there but access was denied for all of them.

Hi Daffy

"dprogra~1" and "DProgram Files" are probably the same directory.

A directory name "DProgram 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 "CProgram
Files" is listed as "CProgra~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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