"Ghost" shared folders?

[Wa11y]

Having some problems with some shared folders and Windows XP. I recenly removed one hard drive, and replaced it with another, copying over the content exactly. I even used the Drive Management tool in XP to give them the same letter (E). Well, when my roommates look on the network, they see two folders on my E drive, but they can't access them. They're not currently shared, but were shared on the old hard drive. If I try and share them again on the new drive, it puts a #2 behind them. Any way to remove those old "ghost" shared folders without reinstalling Windows (I'd rather not do that again so soon)?

[Áedán]

Suspect that there's some registry entries left over!

I'm not massively familiar with XP, so I'll describe the 2K way.. Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Shared Folders -> Shares

That should show you the shares and allow you to remove them!

AidanII

[Wa11y]

You, sir, are THE MAN! That's what I needed, and it got rid of them. Thank you muchly!

[Lionfish]

Hey guys, i think I have the same issue, but if the pic is correct I can't finf the option to delete the extra folders, HELP

TIA.

[Áedán]

By extra folders do you mean the ones that end in a $? If so, they're the administrative shares created by NT/2K/XP. I'd have to look up how to disable them, as they're created by the OS itself. Registry editing might be needed to remove them.

AidanII

[Lionfish]

Thanks AidanII