Minitool Partition Wizard Windows 7
Cre Wallace
I wanted to resize the windows partition using gparted but it wont work, so i used Mini Tool Partition wizard. After first step was made it started to wipe an unallocated space (my wrong) so i canceled it rebooting the computer. Now , when I try to boot, it says something like:
A partition just appeared out of nowhere, the partition's name is "SYSTEM_DRV (F:)" and it is 260MB.
Something that might be related to the issue is that I had a USB stick (with the same letter F) fail just before this happened, and I changed the USB's letter to "G" instead, then this happened.
I did some research, I tried first to remove the letter from disk management, but was unable to, then I tried the "diskpart" method and it got me nowhere. All the fixes I could find online were for partitions that the system recognized it had a letter attached to it, which is not the same as my case, here is a screenshot
I actually didn't think of restarting, but after I did, the drive in question changed letters from F to H but was still visible. But I tried to use diskpart to remove the letter this time, and it worked. Your advice didn't directly solve the problem, but got me closer to actually solving it. So, thank you.
After I restarted as per @Cheong00 advice, I was able to remove the letter of the drive from diskpart. It goes away instantly, but when I restart my laptop, it comes back again. I tried to restart 3 times till now, and every time I use diskpart to remove the letter. But it comes back every time.
Can you export some data from the registry?
Open Regedit, go down to
HKLM\System\Mounteddevices:
Choose File, then export, export as a txt file.
Post the results
\Dosdevices(driveletter:) is where the drive is mapped to the volume
Open disk management > by default some columns are compressed > widen each Status and Volume > make sure the contents within the parenthesis are in full view and that none of the characters are cutoff > view disk 0 > widen this row as needed so that all of the characters are in full view > post an image into the thread
-disk-management-how-post-screenshot.html
When these have completed > right click on the top bar or title bar of the administrative command prompt box > left click on edit then select all > right click on the top bar again > left click on edit then copy > paste into the thread
Removed the letter from problem drive (with Diskpart)
Restarted Windows (problem drive returned with same letter)
Removed the letter again (With Diskpart)
Hid the partition with an external program (Minitool partition wizard) and it didn't come back after several restarts.
@Mohamed Al Gohary
Hi,
Good to hear that you have solved this issue by yourself. In addition, thanks for sharing your solution in the forum.
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