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Unknown drive appearing in File Explorer, "SYSTEM (Z:)"
Hi guys, using Windows 10 Home, 64 bit.
Never before in my time of using Windows computers have I seen this before. Today, as I browsing through my files, I noticed in the left pane of the Windows Explorer window that another "hard drive" or, for all I know, "partition", has appeard in the list of available disk drives. It's name is "SYSTEM (Z:)" and I have no clue how it got there. It's a 356 MB file system, FAT32, defined as "Local Disk", and apparently has about 75 MB already used. I tried looking at it using diskmgmt.msc and it shows it as a 360 MB partition in my main drive that is hosting the OS. It is NOT the recovery partition. It also doesn't have the aforementioned "Z:" designation that the Explorer displays. It also, as you can see, doesn't have a name, either. See attached photo:
Here's another look at the main drive using EASEUS Partition Master. This time, the actual name "SYSTEM" displays itself:
Anyone know why this is showing up? And can I just delete the partition and merge the free space? Or will that mess up any OEM factory install stuff? I want OEM files to remain. I just know that this WAS NOT here earlier.
Does anyone know?