Mysterious 3rd harddrive

[Erdrick Holmes]

This is probably nothing big but it sparks my concern. I had a 2nd Hard disk plugged into my system for more space. Well I never even done any partitioning and my uncle formatted it before he gave it to me so I can use it. After I connected it and turned it on I see this 3rd mysterious volume. How did this get here?

[crono_logical]

What's that camcorder thing? Maybe it's a memory card on there or something. Giving a screenshot of the drive manager in Computer Management should explain what's going on (except on my PC - I think I have too many HDs and CD drives so the last one doesn't show up for me).

[Erdrick Holmes]

The Camcorder is my digital camera in the USB port.

[crono_logical]

Well there you go, you can clearly see the 2nd disk has 2 volumes on it, hence why it gets 2 letters assigned by default :p Nothing wrong with a disk having more than 1 volume on it - my drives have 2, 2, 4 and 7 partitions each :p

[Rainecloud]

Thank the good Heavens for partitioning.

I don't know what I'd do without it.

[Peegee]

If for some bizarre reason you don't want 2 volumes, back up everything off those drives, then delete the partitions using the computer management program. Then create a drive using the entire space.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Wouldn't partitioning clear itself after a disk has been formatted?

[crono_logical]

You don't format disks, you only ever format partitions on a disk :p Common misconception, plus it's easier to say format your disk :p