Puzzling spontaneous duplication of partitions and files.

Hi, perhaps you could post a screenshot of your partitions using a 3rd party partition manager. (Not Disk Management)
What are you using when you see the partition duplicated?

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Installing the program shouldn't do anything unusual. Have you ever used it to restore partitions?
Where do you save your image files?

And just to avoid misunderstandings, in addition to the screenshot dalchina asked for, would you please post screenshots of
1 Whatever you are looking at that shows the duplication you described [I assume that will be File explorer]
2 Disk management {I appreciate that third party utilities can give better info but I'd appreciate seeing Disk mgmt as well}. Be careful to widen the columns so all the data is shown.

By the way, MiniTool Partition Manager is a decent partition manager for you to install but make sure you follow the custom install option so you can avoid installing Avast at the same time.

Denis

OK.

Would you still like to post the two screenshots I suggested [without installing anything additional] just on the off-chance that they reveal enough about the problem for a reliable diagnosis to be made?

Denis

The difficulty we face is that we can't see your PC. Nor have I heard of anything like what you're describing - so we're in the dark. Anything that you can post as a screenshot as above or futher could help.

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That file explorer screenshot answers the question. The duplicate entries for BHGIJTU are merely the way that it displays things. There is no real duplication, the problem you thought you had does not exist.

You can stop File explorer displaying the apparent duplication of drives. The procedure is in Drives in Navigation Pane - Add or Remove - TenForumsTutorials but you do not have to do this if you don't want to. Personally, I find it tidies up the File explorer navigation pane quite well and makes real info easier to see.

So - all is well. No action is necessary.

Denis

You do appear to have two [real] disks, B:\ and G:\, that have the same drive label, "Spare HDD".

If I have misunderstood you and it was that causing you concern then I think you could usefully rename them to different things so you can tell them apart. See Change Drive Label Name - TenForumsTutorials

If you do not think that B & G are real disks then go to Device manager [right-click on the Start button then select it] and expand the Disk drives section and take a screenshot of that. For example -

Denis