A drive takes up a letter, doesn't appear in disk management


  1. Matwoj
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    A drive takes up a letter, doesn't appear in disk management


    Hello
    After reinstalling win10 i noticed that i have a drive that takes up a letter and it doesn't appear in disk management, so i can't change it's letter to something like Z: and hide it. It's nothing major but I'd just like F: to be the letter that pendrives get when i connect them.
    Does anyone know how to change the letter of that drive with it not showing in disk management?
    Thanks
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  3. Steve C
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    Windows 11 Pro 64 bit
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    Is it a network drive which has been mapped to a drive letter? If so,you can just right click the drive and remove it.
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  4. Boice
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    Will the drive appear when in some third-party software like AOMEI Partition Assistant or EaseUs or else?
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  6. Steve C
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    An actual drive should appear in partition management software but I don't think a mapped network drive will.
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