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
    2018-07-01T14:46:14+00:00

    yes I did it in Admin prompt and it did not work

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-01T07:15:22+00:00

    figured it out, copy the CMD walk through that others posted.

    find command prompt- run as admin

    type: diskpart

    list volume  (or try disk vol- this will show you a list of your disks, and pick the one with the disk name you wanted to remove)

    select volume 3

    remove letter="E" (did it blindly and it worked)

    this should help

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-01T02:18:47+00:00

    Windows PowerShell

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    PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> DiskPart

    Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.17134.1

    Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.

    On computer: DESKTOP-53A1MNN

    DISKPART> List Vol

    Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info

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

      Volume 0     D                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media

      Volume 1     C   OS           NTFS   Partition    918 GB  Healthy    Boot

      Volume 2     E                NTFS   Partition    450 MB  Healthy    Pagefile

      Volume 3         Image        NTFS   Partition     11 GB  Healthy

      Volume 4         ESP          FAT32  Partition    500 MB  Healthy    System

    DISKPART> Exit

    Leaving DiskPart…

    It looks like you did get the volume number (2) & letter (E) right. Did you do it in an Admin prompt...?...

    (1) Right-click START, & select "Windows PowerShell (Admin)".

    (2) Enter these commands...

    DiskPart

    List Vol

    Select Vol 2

    Remove Letter=E

    List Vol

    Exit

    Is the letter gone now?

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