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New Drive Partition Added To C: After April Update

 
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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2018 7:09 pm    Post subject: New Drive Partition Added To C: After April Update Reply with quote

The new April Windows Update was a standard upgrade I ran today. After upgrading, there's a new drive letter (HSmile allocated with 449MB of space, with 38.7MB free. As far as I know, there was absolutely no reason necessary to create a new partition as there was plenty of space, unless it uses some pre-existing "recovery" partition (which I've never had from the beginning).

Image of the drives:

https://imgur.com/a/tLCMYSe


Image of the diskmgr:

https://imgur.com/a/zd9T9km
Problems are:

1. I've never had a recovery partition.

2. I don't want this recovery partition.

3. I want to reallocate this space back to my C: drive where it belongs.

Additionally, I am constantly getting "Low disk space on H:" messages every 5 minutes. Is there not a safe way to reallocate this space to CConfused

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Fixed it:

Recovery Partition always existed and it is a good idea to have one as it helps in fixing OS if things go bad. It is a bug in Windows that it was assigned a drive letter.

cmd

diskpart

DISKPART> list volume (to see what number your drive is)

select volume 5 (your drive number)

remove letter="H"

exit

exit
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