What is this disk?

[giorgi1997]

Hey guys,
I recently installed windows 11 on my new laptop and it resulted in something weird. I've got two drives, but I don't remember defining D and it's just half a gigabyte.

And I'm not sure If the stuff inside is essential, so I'm not sure if I should just remove it from disk management


To give additional context, I did accidentally install windows multiple times, because I forgot to change the boot order at first and thought it didn't install, but I don't think that is related.

[Tan3l6]

Edit: half a gigabyte partition?

Perhaps long lost boot partition?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, Tan3l6 said:

Maybe it's a 1TB disk partitioned to 2 about 500GB disks?

one partition is 500mb so no

[Tan3l6]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

one partition is 500mb so no

Yup, edited already.

[IPD]

You're all set for a build from 1996.

[Tan3l6]

1 minute ago, IPD said:

You're all set for a build from 1996.

Would you elaborate?  500GB drives were sci-fi then.

[WhitetailAni]

Somehow your EFI partition has been mounted.

Do not touch ANYTHING in there, doing so could bork your windows install.

Here's what to do:
Open up Command Prompt as an admin. Run the command "diskpart".

Then run the following commands:

list vol
<Find the volume that is your D drive and select its number, which is <number> below>
select vol <number>
remove letter=D

This should remove the D drive from showing in File Explorer.

[giorgi1997]

12 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Somehow your EFI partition has been mounted.

Do not touch ANYTHING in there, doing so could bork your windows install.

Here's what to do:
Open up Command Prompt as an admin. Run the command "diskpart".

Then run the following commands:

list vol
<Find the volume that is your D drive and select its number, which is <number> below>
select vol <number>
remove letter=D

This should remove the D drive from showing in File Explorer.

But would I be able to create a D disk afterwards, or would it just hide it?
Because I want to go and install a second ssd later.

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, giorgi1997 said:

But would I be able to create a D disk afterwards, or would it just hide it?
Because I want to go and install a second ssd later.

It will remove the letter D from that partition only, thereby hiding it. It won't prevent you from using D in the future.

 

Think of it this way.

Drive letters are sticky notes for drive partitions. You can swap them around at will if you want.

So what you're doing here is taking off the D sticky note from this partition and saving it for later.

[EphraimK]

I don't know how that is possible. Even using the EFI bootlogo modifier tool HackBGRT didn't let me access the mounted EFI partition except through MSPaint

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Windows

[GoodBytes]

We need a picture of disk layouts of Disk Management utility to give you any intelligent answer.

All I can say is that the data inside is from Windows recovery partition.

[giorgi1997]

On 11/24/2021 at 6:12 PM, GoodBytes said:

We need a picture of disk layouts of Disk Management utility to give you any intelligent answer.

All I can say is that the data inside is from Windows recovery partition.

Here it is, sorry for the late reply

Looks like there already is an EFI partition in the C disk