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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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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
    2018-06-01T18:46:05+00:00

    I went back and followed Kjell Svela post of May 26 and it appears that it worked - thank you. For all others -

    you need to type "remove letter = "E type exact -

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-01T18:36:39+00:00

    I did the above a number of times but I could not "select" volume 3 to remove "e" - Was I doing something wrong? I was in a black screen, looks like the old doss screens.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-05-26T12:10:44+00:00

    Right click the start button and select Command Prompt(admin)/Powershell Admin whichever exists.

    When the next window opens, type the commands one by one, press Enter after each

    diskpart

    select disk 0

    list volume

    <You would get a list of drives. Note the volume number of the drive which is assigned the drive letter, it would be in 100s of MBs, replace X with the volume number)

    select volume X

    remove letter="Y"

    Replace Y with the drive letter which has been assigned to volume X.

    What shall I exactly type in on the lines:

    select volume X

    remove letter="Y"

    Replace Y with the drive letter which has been assigned to volume X.

    Kjell Svela

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