Solved File Explorer is Displaying Recovery Partitions with Drive

[capair45]

Uninstalling Macrium made no difference. The two partitions still show in File Explorer with drive letters attached. No biggie. Everything still works as it should. Thanks again to both of you.

 

[capair45]

Follow up: This morning, a disk image was scheduled but would not complete as an error in the Master File Table was found. Running the chkdsk utility repaired the error(s). Once repaired, the disk image completed normally. After imaging, the 2-partitions were no longer displayed in File Explorer and checking the Macrium GUI the drive letters had been removed. It appears all is back to normal.

Thanks again to those who helped!

 

[TheTAMAS]

I had a Lenovo which had a hidden Q partition (I think, I deleted the partition years ago). I had to change the partition id to 7 so I could change the drive letter (even though it was hidden) to install Office as Office click to run used a Q:\ while it was installing.

Have a look in diskpart and see what the partition ID is. 07 is Microsoft Basic Data, 17 is hidden, 27 is OEM recovery but there is a whole bunch of them. Could be the dell software changes the partition id to something mountable - I know there are Lenovo utilities to do this.

Perhaps you could have a look at or post the output of diskpart like the output below but adding select partition 5 , detail partition ​as you have more partitions than me.

If you want you can use setid = 07 (or whatever value) after selecting your partition to make them visible (or not). There isn't any risk in doing this really but note down what it was before you change it so you can change it back as your recovery won't work if you change it to something Windows knows nothing about.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.9926

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: WINDOWS10

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary            200 MB    512 B
  Partition 2    Primary             50 GB   200 MB
  Partition 3    Primary            619 MB    50 GB
  Partition 4    Primary             61 GB    51 GB

DISKPART> select partition 1

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 1
[COLOR=#ff0000]Type  : EE[/COLOR]
Hidden: Yes
Active: No
Offset in Bytes: 512

There is no volume associated with this partition.

DISKPART> select partition 2

Partition 2 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 2
[COLOR=#ff0000]Type  : 07[/COLOR]
Hidden: No
Active: No
Offset in Bytes: 209735680

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
* Volume 0     Y   Yosemite     HFS P  Partition     50 GB  Healthy

DISKPART> select partition 3

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 3
[COLOR=#ff0000]Type  : AB[/COLOR]
Hidden: Yes
Active: No
Offset in Bytes: 54682804224

There is no volume associated with this partition.

DISKPART> select partition 4

Partition 4 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 4
[COLOR=#ff0000]Type  : 07[/COLOR]
Hidden: No
Active: Yes
Offset in Bytes: 55333355520

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
* Volume 1     C   Windows10    NTFS   Partition     61 GB  Healthy    System

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

I want to bring your attention to these parts:

1.
07 is Microsoft Basic Data, 17 is hidden, 27 is OEM recovery but there is a whole bunch of them.


2.
Partition 1
Type : EE
Hidden: Yes
Active: No
Offset in Bytes: 512


3.
Partition 3
Type : AB
Hidden: Yes
Active: No
Offset in Bytes: 54682804224


Mind sharing "the bunch" of them?
Type EE & AB ? :shock:
Kindly elaborate.
Thanks