Solved What is this D:\Unk?

[XhenEd]

What is this D:\Unk? Is this crucial to the OS? Or is this not needed?

If possible, I want this gone, without formatting the whole drive. Please, haaaaalllppppp!

 

[DJ Panda]

It might be another drive that came with the computer. Friend of mine had the same deal. Uses it for all of his games. Is there anything possibly related to recovery stuff. I have some computers that have recovery partitions. Not that big though.

 

[XhenEd]

It might be another drive that came with the computer. Friend of mine had the same deal. Uses it for all of his games. Is there anything possibly related to recovery stuff. I have some computers that have recovery partitions. Not that big though.

There's a recovery partition already in mine. And mine is the same with the "Data partition". That's why I have a belief that this is just another partition with no crucial role in the OS. Also, when I do Full backup of the System through Macrium, this Unk isn't included in the backup process, adding my belief that it is safe to do anything to it. But I want to be sure.

 

[Winter Soldier]

Unk is for "unknown", probably some application has created this partition as D drive, or some Windows update/upgrade that has parked some of the files there.
I recommend don't delete it and ignore it

 

[XhenEd]

Unk is for "unknown", probably some application has created this partition as D drive, or some Windows update/upgrade that has parked some of the files there.
I recommend don't delete it and ignore it

Thanks! But is it safe to just hide it?

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Unk is for "unknown", probably some application has created this partition as D drive, or some Windows update/upgrade that has parked some of the files there.
I recommend don't delete it and ignore it

+1

 

[Winter Soldier]

Thanks! But is it safe to just hide it?

Yes you can hide it and problem solved

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Thanks! But is it safe to just hide it?

Yep, hide it.

 

[XhenEd]

Thanks, all!

 

[frogboy]

Well that turned out to be an easy fix.

 

[XhenEd]

Another thing, can I exchange the drive letters assigned to E and D? I want my data partition to be D.

 

[Winter Soldier]

Another thing, can I exchange the drive letters assigned to E and D? I want my data partition to be D.

Here are a few useful tips but I would advice you to do a preventive backup of the files if possible, to avoid any problem.

How to Change a Drive's Letter in Windows

 

[XhenEd]

Here are a few useful tips but I would advice you to do a preventive backup of the files if possible, to avoid any problem.

How to Change a Drive's Letter in Windows

Thanks!