I have recently upgraded from 7 Ultimate to 8 Pro. In backup and defrag I see this drive \\?\Volume{95......}
I can not see it in Windows explorer even if I show hidden files but if I type in the address in the run window it takes me to the root of the C drive which (it seems) is empty.
Does anyone know what it is and if it is a problem? I only have C drive connected
Edit: I deleted this value from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices but after reboot another drive was added:
\??\Volume{3d01297b-52a4-11e2-be73-806e6f6e6963}
I have reverted back the registry backup I made so deleting from registry does not help. The install was a clean install after formatting the drive, not an upgrade.
I did a clean install after upgrading from 7. I formatted C and the Lenovo recovery drive which was a hidden drive with letter Q during this process. After the upgrade I merged the 2 as Win 8 doesn't want a recovery drive as far as I know. Now I only have C drive except for these 2 situations - system restore and defrag. It is a bit odd - the drive letters look a bit like some sort of software installed package but as yet I've not installed anything except Office and TN5250.
The Leveno or OEM participation is a different type of partition than a Windows system partition. You were able to see the OEM partition in disk management?
I didn't reformat the system partition (I don't think you can actually). I reformatted C drive and Q (Lenovo win 7 recovery partition) as par of the upgrade process. After 8 was installed I had C and D and then I deleted D and merged it into C as D was the old Q.
Hello Adam,
Any fix to your problem?
I got the same new volume after upgrading to Win 8.1 from Win 8.
It starts with \\?\Volume{ ... and it is heavily fragmented but Disk Optimization cannot fix it.
I would appreciate any hint.
The Q drive was a different type of Partition/Volume.
If you can find a copy of PTedit.exe - then change that partition type to 07
Then it will become a regular partition & windows can deal with it.
link good for about 1 day http://sdrv.ms/H2L4fb my skydrive ptedit.exe originally came from forums.lenovo.com member.
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Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.
Thank for all suggestions but no luck.
I do not have any virtual drive program. The laptop is fairly new, have it less than a month and was almost fresh upgrade to win 8.1.
What a joke are those from Microsoft!!! If you are a doctor and do such a sloppy job you would be in jail in no time.
Asus M2N-MX SE Plus § DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2300 MHz (11.5 x 200) 4400+ § Corsair Value Select
CPU
AMD 4400+/4200+
Motherboard
Asus M2N-MX SE Plus/Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM)
Memory
2 GB/3GB
Graphics Card(s)
GeForce 8400 GS/GeForce 210
Sound Card
nVIDIA GT218 - High Definition Audio Controller
Monitor(s) Displays
Hitachi 40" LCD HDTV
Screen Resolution
"1842 x 1036"
Hard Drives
WDC WD50 00AAKS-007AA SCSI Disk Device
ST1000DL 002-9TT153 SCSI Disk Device
WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 ATA Device
WDC WD32 WD-WCAPZ2942630 USB Device
WD My Book 1140 USB Device
PSU
Works 550w
Case
MSI "M-Box"
Cooling
Water Cooled
Keyboard
Dell Keyboard
Mouse
Microsoft Intellimouse
Internet Speed
Cable Medium Speed
Browser
Chrome/IE 10
Antivirus
Eset NOD32 6.x/Win Defend
Other Info
Recently lost my Windows 8 on my main PC, had to go back to Windows 7.