Phantom Hard Drive

Hi,

I just noticed that a new drive appeared on my Desktop and I don't know what it is. In the file explorer it's displayed as SYSTEM (H:). When I try to view it I'm told I don't have permission to do that, and when I click on Continue to gain access I'm again told I don't have permission, but I should click on the Security tab. When I look at the properties I see that it's a local disk, FAT32, 76.2 MB used, 279 MB free, and 356 MB total size. When I look at Windows Disk Management there's no H: drive and nothing using FAT32.

Should I care about this? Should I try to get rid of it? I have Macrium Reflect installed and can restore the whole drive back probably a month in 1 day steps if I want to, but haven't tried that yet. Since Macrium doesn't see H: I'm not sure what the effect might be.

My Windows 10 Pro version 1803 says it was installed on 5/24/2018. I was just shown a message that my PC is about to be "improved" (boy am I excited!) by a major update, if that has anything to do with this. My PC is an HP EliteDesk 800 G3 TWR product number Y1B39AV.

Thanks,
Mike

Don't touch it it's the drive Windows boots from if you mess with it it won't boot. It should be hidden right click on it in disk management and remove the drive letter

Samuria,

When I look at the Disk Manager I do see a partition labeled (Disk 0 Partition 1) with the same capacity (although it's 100% free and there's no drive letter). So that appears to be it.

However the Disk Manager doesn't list a drive letter, and right clicking on the partition it shows a grayed-out menu. That means I can't get rid of the drive letter the usual way. Is there another way to reclaim it?

Thanks,
Mike

Windows adds some drives (hidden and or not) for very special reasons.
It may not go well for you if you mess with it.

Rick

Plankton said:

Can you post a screenshot of your disk management window....the complete window?

Can you also post what Macrium Reflect sees also? Thanks.
Note: MR has been patched twice in the last few days (that is a good thing), so be sure to update it when asked.

What do you see when you open an Admin Command Prompt/Powershell and type diskpart Enter then list volume Enter ? Post screenshot like this -

Count Mike; thanks but that's My computer, not the one in Q. I posted, at same time as Bree, to see if the OP would do the same so we could see his disk structure. Regarding mine, it is the HP recovery drive but contents, long obsolete, replaced with copies of all my programs and Win10 ISO in case I need to reinstall or go back to older version.