Rogue partition?


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So after swapping a drive in, the boot record got screwed up. I fixed it with Windows Recovery (I think, it has booted up perfectly a half dozen times in a row).

 

However, along with having the MBR corrupted, I get an extra 500 mb partition showing up as a drive

 

driveg.jpg

 

Which is annoying, since it is full and Windows keeps reminding me that it is low on space. I'm not entirely comfortable doing anything with it.

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its probably your recovery partition and windows has added a drive letter to it

 

in this guide just follow the diskpart guide and it should remove the drive letter, then you dont have to worry about it

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37 minutes ago, DKAngel said:

its probably your recovery partition and windows has added a drive letter to it

 

in this guide just follow the diskpart guide and it should remove the drive letter, then you dont have to worry about it

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22 hours ago, Zagadka said:

Sorry, it appears that a link was missing from that post?

https://www.howtogeek.com/197296/how-to-use-the-diskpart-utility-to-assign-and-remove-drive-letters/

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I'm more concerned about it showing up at all... the letter doesn't matter much.

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Talking about the G drive?  

 

It has data on it (obviously) and should be browseable.  It is probably the Recovery Partition.

 

I would just remove the drive letter and be done with it.  :) 

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which is what i suggested, to the op i wouldn't worry about it showing up but it is normally hidden, it happens from time to time, nothing to worry about really its just a simple recovery partition

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