Solved What are These Unknown Drives Under Optimise Drives


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What are these drives listed as \\?\Volume... under the Optimise Drives listing and how to remove them?
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Do they show in Disk Management? My drive that starts with \\ is a NAS drive attached to my Router.
 

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These aren't appearing on my Windows 11 machine, however, it seems that they're symbolic links to storage volumes. If you run a registry query on the following:

Rich (BB code): 
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\CPC\Volume" /s >> %userprofile%\Desktop\Volumes.txt

Could you please post the Volumes.txt file to your next post?

If you examine the Data values of one of the aforementioned keys, then you'll find the corresponding subkey underneath:

Rich (BB code): 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\STORAGE\Volume

In my example, it was:

Rich (BB code): 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\STORAGE\Volume\{1b99e70c-f159-11ea-9d13-806e6f6e6963}#000000737C200000
 

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Not sure but could they be something to do with a backup software such as Macrium and created when creating an image??

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@Fabler2 What is the output of the below for you?

Rich (BB code): 
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\CPC\Volume" /s >> %userprofile%\Desktop\Volumes.txt

I know that the dfrgui.exe (Drive Optimiser) process enumerates that registry key so I'm wondering if there is something set there which causes the other volumes to be shown?
 

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They are virtual drives used for games
 

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    X570 Aorus Xtreme
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    Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
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Steve C said:
Could be just another bug or 'feature' of the OS due to poor MS software QA which they will probably never fix?
Click to expand...



I have one of those... it's my optical drive...

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x BlueRobot said:
@Fabler2 What is the output of the below for you?

Rich (BB code): 
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\CPC\Volume" /s >> %userprofile%\Desktop\Volumes.txt

I know that the dfrgui.exe (Drive Optimiser) process enumerates that registry key so I'm wondering if there is something set there which causes the other volumes to be shown?
Click to expand...
This,

Code: 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\CPC\Volume\{270c3608-6f55-4edf-8c41-8cf3a6b12723}
    Data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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\CPC\Volume\{751e94fc-97ec-44f3-8267-8580e3381ef2}
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    Realtek Audio. NVIDIA High Definition Audio
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I solved this issue.

Here are the offending drives as listed under Optimise Drives:
odd drives.png

I ran the command mountvol which showed the current mounted volume IDs for the odd drives in question:

\\?\Volume{462984e0-91d1-11ee-93b0-2c33585fef7e}\ I:\ (USB port in Epson ET-8550 printer)

\\?\Volume{462984e1-91d1-11ee-93b0-2c33585fef7e}\ J:\ (USB port in Epson ET-8550 printer)

\\?\Volume{7b5be078-dd20-11ed-9266-806e6f6e6963}\ H:\ (Blu Ray drive)

Therefore Optimise Drives is detecting the USB ports in my Epson ET-8550 printer and BluRay drive as drives capable of optimisation which is clearly wrong. I assume this is just another epic Microsoft bug which they might to choose to fix if we are lucky. There is nothing more I can do until Microsoft fixes this bug.

I also found the useful utility diskext from Systinternals
DiskExt - Sysinternals

Run diskext from a command window.

Here are my drives as shown in Explorer.
drives.png
 
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  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Self build
    CPU
    Core i7-13700K
    Motherboard
    Asus TUF Gaming Plus WiFi Z790
    Memory
    64 GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR5
    Graphics Card(s)
    Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Super Gaming OC 8G
    Sound Card
    Realtek S1200A
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Viewsonic VP2770
    Screen Resolution
    2560 x 1440
    Hard Drives
    Kingston KC3000 2TB NVME SSD & SATA HDDs & SSD
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    EVGA SuperNova G2 850W
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    Nanoxia Deep Silence 1
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    Noctua NH-D14
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    Microsoft Digital Media Pro
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    Logitech Wireless
    Internet Speed
    50 Mb / s
    Browser
    Chrome
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    Defender
Those drives are the hidden partitions, DVD/CD.
 

My Computer

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  • OS
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS
    CPU
    Intel Core I7-10700
    Motherboard
    Dell XPS 8940
    Memory
    32 GB RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2070 Super
    Sound Card
    Realtek
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    LG 24EN33
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    GData
balloon66 said:
Those drives are the hidden partitions, DVD/CD.
Click to expand...
One is the BluRay as posted, the others are definitely the Epson USB ports as I posted. Advanced view in Optimise drives shows two additional drives which are the hidden system partitions you mention
 

My Computer

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  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Self build
    CPU
    Core i7-13700K
    Motherboard
    Asus TUF Gaming Plus WiFi Z790
    Memory
    64 GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR5
    Graphics Card(s)
    Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Super Gaming OC 8G
    Sound Card
    Realtek S1200A
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Viewsonic VP2770
    Screen Resolution
    2560 x 1440
    Hard Drives
    Kingston KC3000 2TB NVME SSD & SATA HDDs & SSD
    PSU
    EVGA SuperNova G2 850W
    Case
    Nanoxia Deep Silence 1
    Cooling
    Noctua NH-D14
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Digital Media Pro
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless
    Internet Speed
    50 Mb / s
    Browser
    Chrome
    Antivirus
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