A Windows update has given a hidden partition a drive letter

Kurgen · 22 May 2018 at 20:08

as above I can only think a recent windows update has caused this , I now have a drive "I" of 500mb which windows keeps throwing out popups saying my drive is low on space, this is meant to be a hidden partition on the boot drive. I have been into disk management, and there is no option on this partition to remove the drive letter. I have also tried using diskpart, and this says the drive is hidden, I tried to change the drive letter to blank but this didn't work either, anyone got any ideas how I do this?

[TBR]MadMark · 22 May 2018 at 22:41

Common problem with 1803

Open command prompt as an administrator

diskpart

list volume

select volume "X"(that has the partition)

remove letter "X"

Smudge · 23 May 2018 at 08:29

Thanks, I had this too and it worked like a charm. Matt

Orcvader · 23 May 2018 at 08:34

Same thing happened to a couple of PCs here, here's a more detailed guide on anyone needing to know how to use diskpart: https://www.maketecheasier.com/remove-assign-drive-letters-windows/

Kurgen · 23 May 2018 at 14:37

thanks will try this tonight

Kurgen · 23 May 2018 at 21:42

thanks this worked

chaparral · 27 May 2018 at 21:04

Lynndinky said:
Common problem with 1803

Open command prompt as an administrator

diskpart

list volume

select volume "X"(that has the partition)

remove letter "X"

Thanks...

kitch9 · 28 May 2018 at 08:12

Microsoft engineers are idiots I'm afraid.

Every update break something in my office, and cost me a couple of hours.

chaparral · 28 May 2018 at 10:55

kitch9 said:
Microsoft engineers are idiots I'm afraid.

Every update break something in my office, and cost me a couple of hours.

Yes straight after the update my PC internet browsers are now locking up all the time...

Looks like am going to have to format and do a reinstall …

kitch9 · 28 May 2018 at 13:53

5 networked printers in my office and 1803 stopped the busiest label printer and its backup from working on all the clients and wiped all it's intricate custom settings.

Couldn't dispatch any orders all morning. MS's name was mud.

Django x2 · 30 May 2018 at 18:18

kitch9 said:
Microsoft engineers are idiots I'm afraid.

Every update break something in my office, and cost me a couple of hours.

Looks like it's because of them that you have a job. Seems to work in my book....

Django x2 · 30 May 2018 at 18:18

kitch9 said:
5 networked printers in my office and 1803 stopped the busiest label printer and its backup from working on all the clients and wiped all it's intricate custom settings.

Couldn't dispatch any orders all morning. MS's name was mud.

If they were attached to a proper print server, why would an update to 1803 cause an issue?

kitch9 · 30 May 2018 at 18:50

Django x2 said:
If they were attached to a proper print server, why would an update to 1803 cause an issue?

Because the clients could randomly no longer see that printer all the others worked as normal. A quirk in the drivers meant that the print job had to be rendered on the clients.

I agree with your question though why would an update cause an issue?