What is this drive E:?  

I have a DELL T1700 which I purchased refurbished 7 years ago. I had the seller replace the hard drive with an SSD solid state drive. There is a drive E: which file Explorer signifies as unformatted. In [Computer Management] [Storage] [Disk Management] [shrink volume] shows the size before shrink is zero. There is no display of it in [Computer][Management].

What is E:? Where is E:? I want to make an E: partition. Should I worry about deleting it or might it be safer to try to rename, if possible.

Windows 10 Pro 64

stanhilliard said:

....What is E:? Where is E:?

Please post a screenshot of Disk Management as described in this tutorial, then we should be able to tell you what it is.

How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management

This 1 Mb Partition is too small to be seen on the graphic.
It would be some unusable sectors of the MBR Disk due to partitioning spec. A new Partition starts always at the first sector of a cylinder. Most probably it's on Disk 0. This is the boot disk and contains the Bootblock on the first sector. The other sectors of this cylinder are not used and marked as free.
Remove the Letter E and the problem is solved because this small part is not usable in any way.

syntoh

I started to rename E: to M:, which generated the following message.

I don't understand how a program would do that. Could the message be a malfunction?
Or could it mean that I might not be able to reboot the computer if I make the change?

Does your computer have a card reader installed?

Winuser said:

Does your computer have a card reader installed?

No.

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Ghot said:

What I think is interesting, is that the E: partition is labeled as RAW, yet the error says it's in use.

I would make Macrium Reflect bootable media (CD/USB) and use the "Fixboot" option.
Then after the boot... I would just delete the E: partition.

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Thanks. I will use Macrium. It will not be until tomorrow afternoon.