I'm seeing reports in other forums about folks suddenly having a 256MB FAT32 SYSTEM (Zpartition appearing on their PCs!
One person did mention they had used a VPN app (which might have created this), but none of the others have done anything like that.
Anyone have any ideas we can investigate??
OK ... but folk are wondering how it got there (since they say they did nothing) and when they try to access is or remove it, they get permission denied!
By default Windows starts assigning the drive letter Z: to Networked drives such as a NAS/Network Attached Storage then works back up the alphabet for additional such drives. I have 2 NAS drives attached to my Router, first one was Z: and the second I added became Y:. All computers working through the Router can access the drives after they are Mapped.
There are others, but this is one I could find quickly: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Noteboo...d/td-p/5587307
Look at disk management and if it's not there it has to be some virtual or network drive. If it is a partition on disk, you can take it's letter off.
I know, but auto assigning it a drive letter with such small space is pretty ridiculous. Seems the firmware update package did not mark the partition correctly, as in making it active during reboot so it could flash the firmware, but then making it inactive again so that Windows would not detect it.
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