folder appeared

Hello Everyone

This folder ESP (F) (see attached) has just appeared on my file explorer, what is it and can it be deleted.

Regards Calmat

ESP usually stands for EFI System Partition, definitely you should not delete this. This partition should normally not have a drive letter associated with it. There have been other reports of it mysteriously gaining the letter 'F' in File Explorer but (curiously) not shown as having a drive letter in Drive Manager. If that is the case for you then...

... restart the PC several times and it will disappear.

http://superuser.com/questions/11130...-in-windows-10

EdTittel said:

Bree: How do you find this stuff? Great call/catch!

I seem to have the knack of asking Google exactly the right questions :)

The hidden files get assigned a letter sometimes, if you try to mount any ISO via Explorer r-click. My 'mystery' drive letter is almost always 'Z'. You can simply remove the letter and the essential file will once again be hidden by:

Open command prompt (admin), type at each step, observing spaces-
diskpart (hit Enter)
list volume (hit Enter)
select volume # (corresponding to one you want to disassociate, in this case, 4 & hit Enter)
remove letter=F (Enter)
list volume (to double-check that this worked)



DONE