I have a Blade Pro (2017). It currently has the following disks:
- C - 226 GB SSD
- D - 1.8 TB HDD
- E - 499 MB HDD ("local disk")
The "Local Disk (E:)" is a bit of a mystery to me: it appears empty even when the "show hidden files, folders and drives" option is selected. Frankly I wouldn't have noticed it except it's nearly full and Windows is freaking out that it's running out of disk space, which is obnoxious.
I did some Googling and found this Microsoft question/answer which indicates that it was a glitch with the May 2018 windows update: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/mystery-local-disk-e-appears-after-features-update/9bd9334a-08aa-4fc5-933b-3a396eb042d9. The solution for that bug is:
- Open the
diskpart
utility list volume
to see all volumesselect volume E
(or otherwise problematic volume)remove letter=E
(or otherwise problematic volume)
Simple enough. But when I ran the diskpart
utility and issued the list volume
command, I saw there was already an explicitly labelled "Recovery" volume.
How do I know that this drive, E, is actually the recovery drive as indicated in the known issue with the 1803 update of Windows 10?