Yes, it is 3 in your case. It can vary to a system by system.
Correct squence:
diskpart
list volume
select volume 3
remove letter="E"
Local Disk E
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I updated to the Creators Spring 1803 update yesterday. Everything seems to be fine although I have not done much since updating. However I notice in windows explorer under Local disk C another entry for Local disk E? It is for 449mb in size with 42.9mb free space left. It opens to show nothing saying the folder is empty. What is it ? Anything to do with the update or can I just delete it?
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This is one of the known issues I am seeing with the update as Recovery partition should be hidden and is accidentally assigned a drive letter.
Right-click Start>Command Prompt(admin)
Type in the following:
diskpart
list volume
select volume 3
Replace 3 with the number of the volume which is assigned a drive letter. (In hundreds of MBs)
remove letter="G"
Replace G with the Recovery drive letter.
Don't worry, removing a drive letter would not cause any harm to your device.
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Anonymous
2018-09-20T19:20:04+00:00 When you format a hard drive you don't actually erase the hard drive of data, you only erase the location information for the data, making it "lost" to the operating system. Since the operating system can't see the data, the drive looks empty when you look at its contents.
However, all the data is still there and, can be recovered using plan software or hardware.
What is the purpose of the information on the E-Disk ?
Why don`t Microsoft tell us more about it ?
Is it secret ?
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Anonymous
2018-09-20T06:38:44+00:00 Yes it did !
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Anonymous
2018-09-19T21:51:23+00:00 It is inadvisable & irresponsible to format a partition without knowing what it is. What is your guess as to what his E: disk is? I have reason to believe it is his Recovery Tools partition. That is where Windows goes when one clicks a Power icon, then holds Shift, as one clicks Restart. There was a glitch in the upgrade to 1803 that put a letter onto it. All that really need be done is to remove the letter.