Same HD shows twice on in the disk management


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 10
       #1

    Same HD shows twice on in the disk management


    Hi everyone,

    I had recently encountered a bug in my system. My hard drive shows up twice in the disk management. just like a screenshot shows, disk C and E are on the same HD, which means disk 0 and disk 2 is the same one. For some reason, since I uninstalled the dual system Ubuntu which was running on disk 1 (not sure if it matters), the hard drive is running Windows was recognized as 2 different drives.

    Please help. thank you in advance.

    Same HD shows twice on in the disk management-capture.png

    And if I look into my connected hard drives, the problematic hard drive has been recognized as 2 under 2 different names.

    Same HD shows twice on in the disk management-capture2.png

    As the picture shows, hard drives 2 and 4 is the same drive.
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  2. Posts : 4,173
    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       #2

    The images that you provided do not seem to show what you are describing.

    In the first image I see 4 physical disk drives. all of which are partitioned differently so I don't see where that is showing the same drive twice.

    In the second image I see 4 completely different drive models so there appears to be no duplicate shown there.

    Could you perhaps explain in more detail why you think that you are seeing 2 of the same drive to help a dummy like me understand?
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  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #3

    hsehestedt said:
    The images that you provided do not seem to show what you are describing.

    In the first image I see 4 physical disk drives. all of which are partitioned differently so I don't see where that is showing the same drive twice.

    In the second image I see 4 completely different drive models so there appears to be no duplicate shown there.

    Could you perhaps explain in more detail why you think that you are seeing 2 of the same drive to help a dummy like me understand?
    Hi, thank you for your reply. My bad for not explaining it well... but your confusion is exactly the point. There are no 4 physical drives connected to my computer ever. There are only 3 drives lol, physical drive 0 and physical 2 are the same drives, and for reason, they are recognized as 2 separate drives. I can no longer know how much space is left in the drive.
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  4. Posts : 4,173
    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       #4

    Drive 0 and 2 are NOT the same physical drive. Again, I see absolutely no evidence of this in your images! They are 2 distinct and very different devices. My confusion lies simply in why you think these 2 are the same disk when they clearly are very different entities. If you could simply explain what makes you think that these are the same drive, that might go a long way to allowing an explanation for your perception.

    Bear in mind that one of these devices is a removable USB device (HDD, thumb drive, etc.). Disk manager shows not only HDDs but other types of storage.

    Please copy the following into a text file and then name the file GetDiskInfo.bat. Make sure that there is not a .txt extension on the end. Right-click that file and choose Run as administrator. It will create a file in the same directory with that batch file called results.txt. Please copy the contents of that file and paste here so that I can look closer at the results.

    Code:
    @echo off
    cd /d %~dp0
    
    (echo list disk
    echo select disk 0
    echo detail disk
    echo select disk 1
    echo detail disk
    echo select disk 2
    echo detail disk
    echo select disk 3
    echo detail disk
    echo exit
    ) | diskpart > results.txt
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #5

    hsehestedt said:
    Drive 0 and 2 are NOT the same physical drive. Again, I see absolutely no evidence of this in your images! They are 2 distinct and very different devices. My confusion lies simply in why you think these 2 are the same disk when they clearly are very different entities. If you could simply explain what makes you think that these are the same drive, that might go a long way to allowing an explanation for your perception.

    Bear in mind that one of these devices is a removable USB device (HDD, thumb drive, etc.). Disk manager shows not only HDDs but other types of storage.

    Please copy the following into a text file and then name the file GetDiskInfo.bat. Make sure that there is not a .txt extension on the end. Right-click that file and choose Run as administrator. It will create a file in the same directory with that batch file called results.txt. Please copy the contents of that file and paste here so that I can look closer at the results.

    Code:
    @echo off
    cd /d %~dp0
    
    (echo list disk
    echo select disk 0
    echo detail disk
    echo select disk 1
    echo detail disk
    echo select disk 2
    echo detail disk
    echo select disk 3
    echo detail disk
    echo exit
    ) | diskpart > results.txt
    I am too dumb to remember I add M2 SSD a while ago... I just took apart my computer and check lol thank you so much!!!
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  6. Posts : 4,511
    several
       #6

    Yes, it tells you on the properties screenshot you posted.
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  7. Posts : 4,173
    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       #7

    pooldiver69 said:
    I am too dumb to remember I add M2 SSD a while ago... I just took apart my computer and check lol thank you so much!!!
    LOL. Not at all. If you are not used to looking at this stuff it's real easy to get lost in the details. I can't tell you how often I've looked at stuff and just repeatedly didn't see an answer looking me right in the face.
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