Solved Duplicate Drives Windows 11


Karthik MS

Karthik MS

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Windows OS drive listed twice in explorer. How to remove one. See below images
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But there is only one physical drive as seen below in disk management.
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Anybody has had this exact problem and know the solution.
 

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Is the D a symbolic link? Weird.
 

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Hi I was able to solve it. Turns out it was a virtual drive. Able to remove using subst cmd -> subst D: /d
 

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i have a similar problem but its worse:
I always have a 2nd Drive, that looks like a mirrored C: Drive and it redirects to Users/me/documents/Private (i neither use nor created that folder). The (virtual) drive appears in command as an entry when i enter subst and it disappears from Explorer, after i delete its subst entry.

BUT it appears again with every reboot.

I tried multiple things now. i deleted all uknown drive entries in regedit, i shut down all auto start apps (via taskmanager, start-apps settings, startup Windows-folder & Regedit), i even mounted a new physical drive (an SD-Card) created a new volume and designated it to the Letter (X) which always is occupied by the re-appearing virtual drive. But nothing helps. After i restart, the virtual drive is there again.
I checked for suspicious looking software but couldnt find any with Revo Uninstaller and in task manager.

I assume, there is a routine somewhere in the systems startup, which re-implements the virtual drive during startup but i cant find it. Someone got an Idea?
 

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Karthik MS said:
Hi I was able to solve it. Turns out it was a virtual drive. Able to remove using subst cmd -> subst D: /d
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But after restart the issue is back. I am not able to do much as it is a work laptop with their custom OS image. This issue is throughout my office, so I am hoping they will fix it. But if any of you find solution, post the solution.
 

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Karthik MS said:
Hi I was able to solve it. Turns out it was a virtual drive. Able to remove using subst cmd -> subst D: /d
Click to expand...
But after restart the issue is back. I am not able to do much as it is a work laptop with their custom OS image. This issue is throughout my office, so I am hoping they will fix it. But if any of you find solution, post the solution
SubaruAlba said:
i have a similar problem but its worse:
I always have a 2nd Drive, that looks like a mirrored C: Drive and it redirects to Users/me/documents/Private (i neither use nor created that folder). The (virtual) drive appears in command as an entry when i enter subst and it disappears from Explorer, after i delete its subst entry.

BUT it appears again with every reboot.

I tried multiple things now. i deleted all uknown drive entries in regedit, i shut down all auto start apps (via taskmanager, start-apps settings, startup Windows-folder & Regedit), i even mounted a new physical drive (an SD-Card) created a new volume and designated it to the Letter (X) which always is occupied by the re-appearing virtual drive. But nothing helps. After i restart, the virtual drive is there again.
I checked for suspicious looking software but couldnt find any with Revo Uninstaller and in task manager.

I assume, there is a routine somewhere in the systems startup, which re-implements the virtual drive during startup but i cant find it. Someone got an Idea?
Click to expand...
I too have the same issue. Is yours personal or work laptop?
 
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Karthik MS said:
But after restart the issue is back. I am not able to do much as it is a work laptop with their custom OS image. This issue is throughout my office, so I am hoping they will fix it. But if any of you find solution, post the solution

I too have the same issue. Is yours personal or work laptop?
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Personal Laptop. I browsed several forum entries and tried to find a solution. but nothing helped until now. There is no weird setting in regedit (as far as i browsed through related entries, i found during my research), no sussy entry in startup routine... NOTHING T__T

I just want to use the wrongly given Letter for an actual physical drive. if it were a different letter, i could probably just hide the "drive" from the list and be happy.
 

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I found the place where D virtual drive is getting set. The office IT had written a script as part of DailyUpdateUtility which runs at startup. I don't know the purpose. Hopefully they will fix this nuisance. I found this by searching for keyword subst in notepad++ in certain c drive folders.
 

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Peut être une solution :

Accédez à la clé du registre Windows
Puis à gauche, déroulez l’arborescence suivante :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders

Supprimer la clé
Ensuite, supprimez la clé du registre : {F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}

Redémarrez le PC
 

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Thierry 83200 said:
Peut être une solution :

Accédez à la clé du registre Windows
Puis à gauche, déroulez l’arborescence suivante :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders

Supprimer la clé
Ensuite, supprimez la clé du registre : {F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}

Redémarrez le PC
Click to expand...
sadly, i dont have this Key in my registry. under the directory, you described above, i have only the Key {3936E9E4-D92C-4EEE-A85A-BC16D5EA0819}.
Is this maybe the key for me to delete?
 

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