What to Do When Windows Shows Two Different Drive Letters for the Same Disk
36What to Do When Windows Shows Two Different Drive Letters for the Same Disk.
It’s a somewhat rare problem, but on occasion, Windows might display the same hard disk or partition twice using different drive letters. Thankfully, there’s usually a simple solution.
This is almost always the result of either a user or program having created a virtual drive that maps to your real drive. These virtual drives are not like drives created with virtual software, but something more like a shortcut or symbolic link that just points one location to another. The virtual drive doesn’t show up in the Disk Management tool (because it isn’t a real drive), but you can remove it using the Command Prompt.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).