ASUS EEE PC SSD HD Issue

[djmaddogfreak]

Hey guys,
I just got an ASUS Eee PC Netbook (1000) with the Solid State Drive, and well it's telling me in every utility I have run (including Partition Magic) that I have 2 drives in there.... It originally had Linux installed on it, and I assume it was partitioned in a way to have a swap partition, but it doesnt make any sense. Any one have any ideas, tips or clues to this one?

 

[Kharn]

One is most likely a recovery partition as the eee as you know dosent have a optical drive for a system recovery disk.

 

[djmaddogfreak]

Right, i would have expected it to have that, but the thing is, it's recognized as another device, NOT a partition...

 

[KSoD]

That is normal. A partition acts like a 2nd drive. Even though it is physically 1 drive. Unless the device manager shows that there are 2 devices listed under the hard drives, which would indicate 2 physical drives, this is a normal behavior.

Case in point my Disk Management screen. You can see only 3 hard drives. Yet i have several partitions which show up under Computer as seperate devices.

If you are really confused just post up a pic of your disk management screen for further confirmation as to what is going on.

 

[djmaddogfreak]

Thats the thing, it doesnt show up as partitions, it shows up as drives..... I will take a screen shot tonight.

 

[Kharn]

If you wouldn't mind, it would help us see what the problem is even if there is one.

 

[djmaddogfreak]

And NO, i do not have two drives in there, nor a thumb drive or anything. That is what my one single SSD hard drive shows up as...

 

[KSoD]

They are partitions. Read the layout part. It says it all.

Layout: Partition

It is just partitions being read as 2 seperate drives. Could be because it is a SSD.

 

[djmaddogfreak]

Ok, any ideas how to make it one partition? Everything i use sees it as two drives. Should I try a live linux CD?

 

[Wiggitamoo]

This is the exact problem that I have on my eee pc 1000 40gb ssd. I installed win xp from a usb and deleted all partitions, but it showed each partition as two separate drives and I couldn't remove them.

Now I only have 7.5 gb of usable memory on my C:\ drive and 30 gb of unallocated disk space. I could partition the space as another D:\ drive, but I'd prefer to have it all under the C:\ drive.

The BIOS refers to the 30gb drive as the slave drive and the 8gb as the master. How do I remove the two drives and just see them as one?