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

Anonymous
2021-10-01T22:00:28+00:00

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

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-10-04T16:45:57+00:00

    Hi Greg…

    Thank you for your response.  Much appreciated.

    Before I go much further, can I ask 2 questions:

    1. Can I post a word document with screen shots and explanations at an attachment to show the disk management screen shot and the windows explorer screen shot?
    2. In your reply below you mentioned unlinking Onedrive and doing things within Onedrive.   I have uninstalled Onedrive from this PC so do I have to reinstall it? Will it then point to what was there before or have I really messed this up?

    Thanks again for your help.

    Cheers!

    Garry

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-02T01:45:14+00:00

    Hi BG. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, specializing in Installation, Performance, Troubleshooting and Activation, here to help you.

    Please post a screenshot of Disk Management, which I read like a doctor reads X-rays. Follow the steps here so I can see everything needed to advise you: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/foru...

    The contents of G which I can see show that it's the Recovey partition containing the bootable WinRE tools which are used when Windows won't start, shown here:

    https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2294-advanc...

    A Recovery partition should not have a Drive letter so you can remove that.

    But before you try to move the OneDrive folder partition back I would unlink OneDrive because it could mess up it's linkages which have apparently somehow changed from where you originally assigned them.

    So the way to do this is go into OneDrive Settings > Backup tab to disable Backup Folder protection so the User folders syncing with OneDrive are set back to default location for the time being.

    Next go into OneDrive Settings > Accounts tab > to Unlink OneDrive as shown here: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/36246-link-...

    Now go into Disk Management, remove the drive letter from G, move it to the partition where you want the OneDrive folder.

    Now go into Start Menu, open Microsoft OneDrive, go through the steps here to set it up: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-started-....

    At the step for where you want to move the OneDrive folder, choose Drive G and the existing OneDrive folder.

    If you still want Folder Protection Backup, enable it again on OneDrive Settings > Backup tab.

    Make sure Files On Demand is not checked on the Settings tab or the files will only stay in the cloud, not on the hard drive where they'll be replaced by links.

    I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions. Please report back results for all steps given so I know what else to suggest if necessary.

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