• New harddrive randomly popedup
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Hey everyone, so, ive factory restored my computer quite recently. Anyways, I went to the windows explorer and saw a hard-drive named "SYSTEM" its using "K:\", it has 207MB free space and the full space it apparently can have is 256MB. I've never seen this drive before, i tried searching for it online but didn't find anything. I did find you could hide a disc but using cmd, but I relly dont wanna risk anything happening to my computer. Im using Windows 8.1, ive also factory restored my pc many times. I hope someone can help me hide this drive. Also, when i click it, it says i need to open it as a admin (so i can get into the drive), i didnt go into it, just incase. Im speculating this disk is the disk windows uses to boot. I also tried restoring the settings of how windows is going to display files (one example for the things you can choose is to show the .*file* as an example insted of something being called "lol" is insted showing its file name in the name so it would say "lol.zip" for example), didnt work. When i started the computer today, it said something like windows is confugrins, but that has happend many times, and still, this has never happend before. //Lucas
Do not mess with it. It is the System Reserved partition on your hard drive which has crucial system files and is usually hidden with no drive letter, but for some reason it was assigned a drive letter and appeared. If you want to hide it and trust yourself not to break your computer, you can do this to hide it: 1. right click on start button 2. Click "disk management" 3. On "disk 0" there will be a partition with somewhere around the capacity you mentioned (300MB in my case). Right click on that, select something like "change drive letter". 4. You should get a list, most likely with just one item, "K:" as you have said. Just select "K:" and press the "Delete" button on the bottom.
[QUOTE=daigennki;51533400]Do not mess with it. It is the System Reserved partition on your hard drive which has crucial system files and is usually hidden with no drive letter, but for some reason it was assigned a drive letter and appeared. If you want to hide it and trust yourself not to break your computer, you can do this to hide it: 1. right click on start button 2. Click "disk management" 3. On "disk 0" there will be a partition with somewhere around the capacity you mentioned (300MB in my case). Right click on that, select something like "change drive letter". 4. You should get a list, most likely with just one item, "K:" as you have said. Just select "K:" and press the "Delete" button on the bottom.[/QUOTE] hmm, i can't change the letter, il take a screenshot of it [IMG][IMG]http://i66.tinypic.com/2lb0xhc.png[/IMG][/IMG] [IMG][IMG]http://i67.tinypic.com/15zr1w9.png[/IMG][/IMG] [editline]15th December 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=daigennki;51533400]Do not mess with it. It is the System Reserved partition on your hard drive which has crucial system files and is usually hidden with no drive letter, but for some reason it was assigned a drive letter and appeared. If you want to hide it and trust yourself not to break your computer, you can do this to hide it: 1. right click on start button 2. Click "disk management" 3. On "disk 0" there will be a partition with somewhere around the capacity you mentioned (300MB in my case). Right click on that, select something like "change drive letter". 4. You should get a list, most likely with just one item, "K:" as you have said. Just select "K:" and press the "Delete" button on the bottom.[/QUOTE] And this will ONLY hide it?
[QUOTE=efflucas;51533585]And this will ONLY hide it?[/QUOTE] Of course, you are not supposed to delete it! But it looks like it is not showing up anymore judging by your screenshot so I do not see why you are worried.
il post a new screenshot [editline]15th December 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=daigennki;51533684]Of course, you are not supposed to delete it! But it looks like it is not showing up anymore judging by your screenshot so I do not see why you are worried.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i66.tinypic.com/dnyt86.png[/IMG]
Now that is odd, appears in "PC" but not Disk Management. I say for now just ignore it and do not do anything to it.
[QUOTE=daigennki;51533777]Now that is odd, appears in "PC" but not Disk Management. I say for now just ignore it and do not do anything to it.[/QUOTE] okay, thank you ^^ [editline]15th December 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=daigennki;51533777]Now that is odd, appears in "PC" but not Disk Management. I say for now just ignore it and do not do anything to it.[/QUOTE] also, do you think it could be a virus? i personly dont think so but, ye
As far as I know, the system or recovery partition isn't assigned a drive letter and is normally hidden from the view of the average user.
[QUOTE=colincooke;51533908]As far as I know, the system or recovery partition isn't assigned a drive letter and is normally hidden from the view of the average user.[/QUOTE] It is, seems somethings borked
as i expected [IMG][IMG]http://i64.tinypic.com/zn7de.png[/IMG][/IMG] i had the feeling this was gonna happend, so my compuyter first configurated windows updates i think, then, said it was working with them, then it says restarintg... the pc didnt restart so i did it manualy, then it did the samething, then it said it was working on the updates, the it started over again without restarting either automaticly, or that i did it manualy, anyways, its gone now. thank you all for the help anyways! [editline]16th December 2016[/editline] maybe i had enable to view hidden operatviving system by mistake, but then, it still said it was disabled in the settings, well well its gone now
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