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Logical drive split on hard drive. What's up?
I have not run into this before and cannot find it discussed in the forums or internet.
One of the physical data hard drives on my computer has two partitions. Two logical drive (F and G) as defined by the OS (Windows 10 pro). This is a 500gb HDD that is only about 50% full.
When I look with windows explorer I see drive F and drive G accurately described with the appropriate data and correct used/freespace on each partition/logical drive.
When I look with windows disk manager or other disk manager program the physical drive map shows logical drive F split in half with logical drive G sitting in between the two halves of logical drive F. The total used/freespace for each logical drive is correct.
I assume that somehow this is due to the physical position of the data sectors on the hard drive. I have never seen this before. How did it happen? Would running defrag on the drive return this to a more normal configuration? Is this a common finding?