Local Disk E Appeared
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Solved After the april update a local disk (E:) appeared in My PC. How do I get rid of it? (self.Windows10) submitted 11 months ago by eavesdroppingyou.
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Just today, a new drive appeared out of nowhere: F
F is not USB, not disk and not the normal integrated drive(which is currently C and D).
When trying to open, it requests admin access. Upon granted access, it still denies with this error:
You have to use the category Security to access this drive
Running a virus scan that lists the files while it runs, some files include microsoft and MSI boot files
What is this drive? Why did it suddenly appear now?
Image: The F drive + disk management.
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you go to command prompt, you can search it in search bar at your bottom left of windows and run it as administrator.
type in diskpart. hit enter.
type in list volume. hit enter.
you must find what number of your drive F in the list. let's say it is on number 3
type in select volume 3 and hit enter.
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after thattype in remove letter=F and hit enter.
Microsoft livesupport helped me with this issue. And they said it safe to remove it.
Goodluck! Have a nice day! :)
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I started getting warnings about running out of space on my E: drive. I've read many articles, threads and posts online about how to clean the drive but none of them resolved my issue.
My machine specs:
OS: Win 10 Pro
Version: 1803
OS build: 17134.1
I disabled hiding of protected/system files to see what's on the E: drive but I don't see any clutter. I ran the disk clean up several time as an admin to no avail. Any tips and suggestions how to clean up the E: drive would be much appreciated! Thanks.
magicandre19811 Answer
This is a new OEM recovery drive that gets created during Windows 10 v1803 upgrade. You can fix the issue by removing the drive letter for the drive
- Open cmd.exe as admin
- run the following commands :