Onedrive seems to have created its own drive G partition and moved my previous drive G partition to drive L

Hello...

It may not be standard behavior but nonetheless it happened when OneDrive made changes to its functionality. It was not a result of malware, virus or any such bad malicious software. It just happened when I set up Onedrive with its new changes.

Problem has been resolved with the help of PCR to whom I am very grateful.

But thank you for voicing your thoughts.

Cheers!

Garry

One drive has messed up my partitions in that I had a drive G called WorkArea (G) that has the one drive folders to sync on it, along with all other files and folders on it. Somehow my G drive WorkArea (G) (partition) was reallocated to drive L WorkArea (L), and a separate partition G now called Local Disk (G). has appeared in the original drive G's place. (not talking about drive Mapping here).

In windows explorer I see the following screen shot

whereas in disk management, G does NOT show up at all and I cannot change WorkArea (L) back to G.

Drive L does show up in windows explorer, but is not in the screen shot. .

and trying to re-assign WorkArea to G I cannot, as it is unavailable.

how do I fix this?

I tried to uninstall OneDrive, and reboot but nothing changed.

Can someone please help me fix this as my backup plans are set for G as what is in WorkArea L and now backup of G only shows OneDrive files, that were not part of the backup plan to begin with.

Thanks for any help you can offer. Much appreciated.

Garry G

That is not standard behaviour for OneDrive so there is a malfunction or possibly malicious software present

You are welcome. BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data. Glad to have helped. I too am happy to have learned a thing/two in this thread. May there be many happy boots & reboots to you & me. Good luck, & keep us informed.

Hi PCR....

Thank you so very much for all your help. I cannot thank you enough for all your time and effort.

This was a big learning experience for me considering I do not still, even know what BCD acronym means, or how to have even thought about this as problem,

You are a great community resource and I hope everyone to whom you have ever helped here appreciates you as much as I do.

Thanks again, and stay safe.

Best Regards,

Garry

Yep -- woohoo! It's a job well done on both our parts. And good of Windows to self-adjust the BCD after the removal of H: & a reboot. Victory is ours at last. I studied the BCDEdit help screens & practiced on my own BCD to be able to do all that. Also, there are sites & threads that discuss it. I guess do one really final: "BCDEdit /Export C:\BU\BCD_Backup".

And that's the glorious end of it. Good luck.