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How can I find out what this drive is?
In continuing my quest to try to figure out what's slowing down my new pc, I went to the disc defragmenter (now apparently called Optimized Drives, don't I feel old :P ) and there's a weird drive I don't recognize and didn't show up when I googled it. I have my regular Windows C:, Recovery D:, and a third drive with a really long name:
//?Volume{a94c2570-c117-4230-8eb6-78a45a77ab7f}/
What could that even be? I was thinking maybe the computer somehow thinks one of my external HHDs is plugged in, but under "media type" this drive reads as a SSD same as my pc (and none of my external hard drives are SSD). The drive does not show up in My PC, deframenter says it needs optimization, and when I tried to defragment for kicks nothing happens.
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1 Answer
- 5 years ago
since it's a store/shop bought PC, that 3rd drive is just a mistake, it is there, but your not supposed to be able to see it.
Drive/Partition 1, usually C, is the main system drive.
Drive/Partition 2, Usually D, this is the system backup drive, contains drivers and software in some cases and is usually very small compared to the main drive.
now the 3rd drive, this is the recovery partition, where all your recovery media is stored, all the drivers, operating system, software etc, when you do a factory restore it will be read off of that drive.
usually you will not be able to see any sign of it being there unless you open 'Computer Management' (which you can type in the start search box to find, will list all drives/partitions) and in the drive management section.
i haven't used Windows 10, but the tools should be there if you search online how to find this if it doesn't work the way i describe.
in the start menu/screen, there is a search box, type in it
resource monitor
it might take some time to find and come up, when it does, open it.
this is the tool that will log and show you what is accessing the HDD/SSD, using the internet, using/in the memory/RAM, using your CPU.
you can open up the various tabs and sort them into different orders to find out what might be using the HDD or memory the most.
if the computer is slow, might be worth finding the manufacturers download page for the laptop/computer and installing the latest drivers.
also Auslogics Disk Defrag (just search for it online) is a real good defrag tool, never defrag an SSD though (NEVER! :D) .
Note*
it might be slow because windows is downloading and installing windows updates.