How to "suppress" a drive ?


  1. sfleury
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    How to "suppress" a drive ?


    Hello
    My Windows 10 version is 22H2 Build 19045.4046

    I had to "upgr ade" some disks to larger space - All partitioning, copies went fine
    My disks were initially called "D:" and "E:"
    After I replaced them annd restarted Windows, I tried to "rename" the new volumes to "D:" and "E:" - It worked fine for "E:", but I noticed that "D:" was now used by an empty USB drive .... (see attachments)
    I tried to remove the "D:" drive but did not succeed
    There in no physical unit associated to this let ter

    How and why was this unit added yto my system ?
    How can I suppress it so I could use the letter "D:" ?

    Thanks for your help

    Have a good day
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  3. Samuria
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    Is it a local drive or network share if you go into disk management you should be able to remove the drive letter then it won't show
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  4. Pentagon
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    in cmd type:
    mountvol D: /d
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  6. Berton
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    Have seen where an SDHC card slot gets identified as USB.
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  7. sfleury
    Posts : 19
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    Thank you all for your answers
    I solved the problem another way : As I have mountable racks installed on my computer, I installed both hard disks at the same time and got D: and E: for the "old" disk and I: and J: for the new disk
    I renamed D: and E; as Q: and R: ... this "freed letter D: and E:
    I rename I: and J: as D: and E:
    I shutdowned the computer, removed the "old" disk and rebooted
    The "vew" hard disk has nom 2 logical units as D: and E: and everything works fine !

    Thanks Have a good day
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