scott14 Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 (edited) How can I eliminate a mysterious 19.6 GB "Drive Z:" that has spontaneously appeared on my individual personal desktop computer. (Windows XP Professional SP2)It appears in the list of logical drives in Windows Esplorer. No files are vidible in it in Windows Explorer, but the Properties display shows 11.7 GB of files in it. However, this Drive Z: is NOT seen by either the Windows Management Console (Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management / Disk Management), or by Partition Magic 8.I haven't figured out which of 3 HDDs it's on. How can I eliminate it?Thank you. Edited October 23, 2007 by scott14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicfly Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 have you tried to use Partition Magic rescue disk? myabe rebooting and working on partitions before Windows loads, could do the job... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unnameduser Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Is it a mounted volume by any chance?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott14 Posted October 23, 2007 Author Share Posted October 23, 2007 magicflyI'll try your suggestion. Thank you.unnameduserNo it's not a mounted volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 (edited) Try right-click on the drive and choose Disconnect. It might be a network drive.EDIT: or it is a camera or other USB device. Edited October 23, 2007 by Tripredacus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott14 Posted October 23, 2007 Author Share Posted October 23, 2007 Solved.It seems to have been something related to Acronis.When I deleted the Acronis Secure Zone, the mysterious Z: drive disappeared.Thank you all for your good suggestions and willingness to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twig123 Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Also say goodbye to any recovery information that you had with acronis....The acronis secure zone is used kinda like a recovery partition to restore the computer... because the files are written in a non-standard format it 'looks' as if the drive is blank in windows explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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