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Removing b0rked drive letters?
« on: February 24, 2008, 04:21:10 pm »


In a nutshell, the only way I've found to remove those drives is to reboot. They don't show up in Disk Management, TrueCrypt can't force-unmount them, and they just kinda sit there and don't do anything. :(

What can I doo?!
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[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Removing b0rked drive letters?
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2008, 04:26:44 pm »
Ignore them? :-\
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Removing b0rked drive letters?
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2008, 04:36:21 pm »
Ignore them? :-\

Eventually I run out of letters to mount with... so that's a no.
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[17:32:45] * xar sets mode: -oooooooooo algorithm ban chris cipher newby stdio TehUser tnarongi|away vursed warz
[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
[17:32:58] <xar> new rule
[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Removing b0rked drive letters?
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2008, 04:47:59 pm »
Shrug. It randomly fixed itself. The geek in me wants to recreate the problem and find out how I fixed it... but for now, whatever. :)

EDIT -- Got it. Thank you, warrior. mountvol K: /D gave me a The system cannot find the file specified error, but that's good I guess -- the drive removed itself from the list.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2008, 04:51:36 pm by Newby »
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[17:32:45] * xar sets mode: -oooooooooo algorithm ban chris cipher newby stdio TehUser tnarongi|away vursed warz
[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
[17:32:58] <xar> new rule
[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Removing b0rked drive letters?
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2008, 06:26:55 pm »
On NTFS, can't you mount to a folder?

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Re: Removing b0rked drive letters?
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2008, 11:29:03 pm »
Not with TrueCrypt! :P
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[17:32:45] * xar sets mode: -oooooooooo algorithm ban chris cipher newby stdio TehUser tnarongi|away vursed warz
[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
[17:32:58] <xar> new rule
[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Removing b0rked drive letters?
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2008, 01:28:41 am »
Basically, what I'm reading is that TrueCrypt works like DoubleSpace did?  By creating a virtual hard drive based on a single file?

Why don't you use BitLocker?
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Re: Removing b0rked drive letters?
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2008, 02:07:31 am »
Basically, what I'm reading is that TrueCrypt works like DoubleSpace did?  By creating a virtual hard drive based on a single file?

You can also encrypt entire system/non-system partitions. Yes.

I am simply toying with different encryption programs. From what I have looked into, BitLocker does partitions only. I'm toying with file containers right now, and will move into that soon enough.
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[17:32:45] * xar sets mode: -oooooooooo algorithm ban chris cipher newby stdio TehUser tnarongi|away vursed warz
[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
[17:32:58] <xar> new rule
[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT.