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

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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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

Hi again Greg....

while waiting on a reply to my last email I went ahead and reinstalled one drive, set up linkage to the original folder that was on G and is now on L , then unlinked it.

Still am unable to go much further about removing G as explained in the following copied from the word document that I created, but am unable to attach here. I hope this will be helpful to you in trying to get things back on track for me.

Here is disk management shot.  Drives y and Z are not shown as they are CD/ROM and have nothing in them.

Note that there is NO G drive shown here. Note also,  Disk 0 Partition 2?   I just cloned my C drive 340GB SSD to new 1TB SSD, as somehow it suddenly was full??. There is now a second unused partition on the new SSD.

This is what I see in Windows Explorer: properties say 161 of 465 MB used.  Onedrive files were here. I deleted them: Before deleting the Onedrive files from here, I backed them up to another location.  I uninstalled One Drive, then deleted the files from G.   This is its current state of Drive G.  

The One Drive files already existed in drive L in a folder @@One Drive and for some reason were duplicated on this drive G. This is what is one Drive L currently.

Hello???

I responded to Greg's last post while back (Oct 4th) but have not heard back from him. Not trying to be impatient, just would like to get this issue fixed.

I still need help with this if someone could assit that would be great.

Thank in advance.

Cheers!

Hi Greg...

I cannot resolve this issue with the advice you gave in your original answer. I still have the G drive that Onedrive created on my PC that is not a partition and I cannot get rid of it from my PC. I posted the information you requested and problems thereafter, and I still have not had any further response from you, and I cannot fix this myself.

I have ulinked my account from my PC, uninstalled one drive components from My PC but still cannot get rid of the G drive it created. G drive looks to be a "partition" in windows explorer but doe NOT show up in Disk Management. I cannot delete G no matter what I do.

Can you or someone else please chime in to help.

thanks

Garry