WINRE_DRV is showing as a G: drive on the windows file explorer

Ben Xie

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Do you know how to do that?
 

GregT17

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Why would you want to remove it?? I have the same on my Lenovo T440S - so long as it's meant to be there I am happy. Just curious why you want to remove the drive letter. Onl;y time I notice it is when I check the DIsk Fragmentation options and see it listed as a drive that 'needs optimising' - the utility doesn't allow it to happen, so I assume it doesn't need to.
 

Ben Xie

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it was showing on the file explorer
 


A recovery Partition does NOT need a drive letter but because it is a Formatted partition with legit files on it windows see's it and gives it a drive letter. Honestly getting rid of the drive letter for Non avid users is better so they don't screw with the partition.

This is one reason why I like dell. Their Recovery partition is different and you usually don't see it. You almost never use your recovery partition while in windows but always when you in the Recovery Enviroment in which case what settings you have it set as in windows is pointless as it will give it a Letter.
 

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I know that this thread spans back a year ago but did you ever in the end come right? If not the simplest way to hide a partition you don't want to see in your explorer is to use the Diskpart utility by running it under a command prompt. From there you can just type list disk, select your disk, list partition, select the partition you want to hide and type remove after which it will unmount the drive letter assigned to it and hide it. So:

Under a command prompt:
type diskpart
type list disk
type select disk=0 (depending on which disk the partition is you'd like to hide)
type list partition (to see which partition nr it is)
type select partition 1 or which ever nr the partition is
type detail partition (just to make sure it's the correct one)
type remove (to which it'll unmount the drive and hide it)

I only stumbled upon this thread today as I'm having a field day the last 2 days cloning my old SSD to a new one on a Lenovo thinkpad. Learned the hard way not to mess about too much with partitions especially "dynamic vs basic" disc... :(

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