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
    2018-07-01T20:39:37+00:00

    I wouldn't format your E volume - I think it is your Recovery Environment to which Shift+Restart will boot (at the Choose an Option screen). But now I see it appears to hold your Pagefile too.

    (1) How did that get there? You've got tons of space on C: for that.

    Remove it this way...

    (a) Right-click START, & select "System".

    (b) Click "System info" at the top right.

         Control Panel opens at its System page.

    (c) Click "Advanced system settings" at top left.

         System Properties will open at its Advanced tab.

    (d) Click the Settings button under Performance.

         Performance Option opens.

    (e) At the Performance Option's Advanced tab, click the Change button.

         The Virtual Memory requestor will open.

    (f) Uncheck "Automatically manage" in the Virtual Memory requestor, if necessary. Then the possible drives will appear in the drive selection box. I think you will see the Pagefile is set on the E volume. Switch it back to C:. Then, put a check back into "Automatically manage".

    (2) After that, you should be able to remove the letter E using DiskPart. But first I'd like to see the result of DIR E:\ /a /sat a Command Prompt (Admin) - not PowerShell**...**

    Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.1]

    (c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>DIR  E:\  /a  /s

     Volume in drive E has no label.

     Volume Serial Number is 9AB3-01BA

    Directory of E:\

    05/01/2018  02:59 AM    <DIR>          Recovery

    05/06/2018  02:58 PM    <DIR>          System Volume Information

                   0 File(s)              0 bytes

    Directory of E:\Recovery

    05/01/2018  02:59 AM    <DIR>          .

    05/01/2018  02:59 AM    <DIR>          ..

    05/06/2018  02:03 PM    <DIR>          Logs

    05/06/2018  06:00 PM    <DIR>          WindowsRE

                   0 File(s)              0 bytes

    Directory of E:\Recovery\Logs

    05/06/2018  02:03 PM    <DIR>          .

    05/06/2018  02:03 PM    <DIR>          ..

    05/06/2018  06:00 PM             1,355 Reload.xml

                   1 File(s)          1,355 bytes

    Directory of E:\Recovery\WindowsRE

    05/06/2018  06:00 PM    <DIR>          .

    05/06/2018  06:00 PM    <DIR>          ..

    04/11/2018  07:34 PM         3,170,304 boot.sdi

    05/06/2018  06:00 PM             1,110 ReAgent.xml

    05/01/2018  02:56 AM       443,658,893 Winre.wim            << That's the Recovery Environment

                   3 File(s)    446,830,307 bytes

    Total Files Listed:

                   4 File(s)    446,831,662 bytes

                  10 Dir(s)     362,561,536 bytes free

    C:\WINDOWS\system32>

    Is your WinRE.wim in there? Try Shift+Restart - do you get there?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-01T20:24:55+00:00

    I found that if I just deleted the E Driver, pretty someone's suggestion above, it took care of it. Must have been an update glitch

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-01T20:21:35+00:00

    quick question I went to file explorer and I have 2 "E". Fraglist.luar and fragilist.txt.  Do I do both?

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