Local Disk E

Anonymous
2018-05-01T11:19:11+00:00

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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Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2018-05-01T12:11:33+00:00

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"

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Sumit 44,316 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2018-05-01T11:34:59+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2018-05-10T15:41:29+00:00

    Everybody seems to have omitted a couple of important bits.

    DISKPART> list volume

      Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info

      ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------

      Volume 0     E                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media

      Volume 1     C   SYS          NTFS   Partition    459 GB  Healthy    Boot

      Volume 2         Windows RE   NTFS   Partition    980 MB  Healthy

    * Volume 3         Recovery Im  NTFS   Partition     15 GB  Healthy

      Volume 4         SYSTEM       FAT32  Partition    360 MB  Healthy    System

      Volume 5     F   DATA         NTFS   Partition   1862 GB  Healthy

    DISKPART> exit

    DISKPART> exit

    Leaving DiskPart...

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>

    In the above listing, the asterisk suggested to me that the change hadn't been saved. Entering the exit command (last line), followed by redisplaying the volume list confirmed that the partition table was, indeed, updated, most likely by the exit command. I'm not sure what would happen if you closed the command prompt.

    Also pertinent is that I ran diskpart in an elevated prompt, which I did on my own, on the assumption that diskpart requires one.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-18T05:45:11+00:00

    what i have to do in my case???  which volume i have to select????

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-05-20T15:52:05+00:00

    I am having a similar problem.  My Dell computer keeps telling me that I am running out of memory.  My C: drive has 822 gb still available, but this local disk E: on has 39 mb out of 450 mb available.  Can I just delete the darn thing?  if not, how do I actually empty it?

    Thank you!

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