The new Windows 10 v1803 which were recently released in April 2018, brought along tons of new features that aim to improve the existing ones. Despite all these features, there are still some users not quite satisfied with them as they have reported that the new Windows 10 v1803 create an extra OEM or recovery partition that they weren’t able to delete as they have a logical drive letter assigned to them.
You can see this extra partition in the Disk Management as well as in the File Explorer and it occupies disk space virtually. In some cases, the system will notify you that the disk is already full. In addition, you might also find that if you check the Disk utilization under the Task Manager, you’ll see that it almost reached 100% which could affect the performance of the system. To fix the issue, here are some options you can try.
Option 1 – Try to hide the logical drive
Remember that this extra partition is important in recovering Windows 10. However, it actually occupies disk space virtually so you can hide the partition so it wouldn’t appear in the File Explorer. But if you really want to get rid of it, that can’t be done in the Disk Management as they don’t have the option to do so but you can refer to the next following options below.
Option 2 – Try using Diskpart
To shrink or remove the extra partition in your system, you can pull up an elevated Command Prompt rather than the Disk Management to shrink or remove the extra partition. Simply execute the following commands:
- diskpart
- list volume
- select volume <the volume in the drive>
- remove letter=X:
- Exit
Note: In the aforementioned commands, “X” is the drive letter. Once you execute these commands, it will remove the extra partition and fix the problem.
Option 3 – Try to remove the MountPoint
- Right-click on the Start Menu.
- After that, select the Command Prompt as admin.
- Then type in the command: “mountvol X: /D” and tap Enter. Note that “X” is the Drive letter.
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