Windows 10: local disk f

Hi everyone

This has just appeared on my computer, and I cannot delete, can anyone please tell me how to get rid of this.

Regards

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Empty partition showing up in Windows Explorer

Hi,

Local Disk (F usually appears when you've inserted a flash drive to your computer. For us to determine what is causing the issue, we'd like to know if Local Disk (F suddenly appears after installing Windows updates? Can you also provide a sample screenshot
of the issue?

In the meantime, we suggest rebooting your computer to check if Local Disk (F will disappear.

We're looking forward to your reply.

 

Deleted Data

What is in Local Disk (F?

 

Do you have a USB drive, network drive or SD card inserted?

 

Hi

No I do not have anything plugged in, it just appeared

 

Hi

No I do not have anything plugged in, it just appeared, I have just found this.

 

That could be a folder on a networked drive.

 

Is this the problem, and can I delete, if so how do I do this.
I have also found this, but I cannot open this.

 

That may be a System or Reserved partition. It is quite small or a small percentage of the total size of the HDD. I don't let that bother me as it has no impact upon the overall storage of data.

 

can I delete this from my desk top, if so how do I do this.

 

I cannot find this local drive to hide it, (see attached)

 

According to your picture it is not a Drive but a Partition on the only HDD/Hard Disk Drive in the computer. Windows may prevent you from deleting but you might right-click it and see if you can remove/unassign the drive letter F: for it. Again, Windows may not let you do that. And again, it's such a small partition it shouldn't be a problem if left alone. I guess one could save all their data and do the clean install of the OS choosing to clean the drive completely but 1 or more of the partition will return, just the way Windows does things.

 

Please post a full screen shot of File Explorer showing the drive, folders, and network

then post a 2nd screen shot after clicking on Network in the left pane

Your Disk Mnmgt shows that it F is not assigned to a HDD, so it looks to me as a network drive

There's a tutorial to remove Network from File Explorer, but that doesn't explain the issue.

A simple question: Do you have any devices configured on a network? Could be a printer, a phone, a NAS - anything defined or connected via a local network.

 

hi

here are the screen shots you have asked for, and yes I have printer configured on a network.

Regards

 

I seem to remember that, on one of my machines, when I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 I had 2 reserved system partitions - the one from the previous OS was still there. Could this be the origin of the mystery 400MB partition. I'd take a screenshot, but all my pcs were clean installed after the upgrade, so only have 1 reserved partition.

It's only a tiny % of the drive - I'd ignore it.