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
    2021-11-02T19:50:06+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

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    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. .

    Image

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

    Image

    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

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-11-02T21:57:03+00:00

    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

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