Question New SSD shows up as a removable disk, and Windows recovery folder is visable on "MyPc"

[Mariusglock]

EDIT: Solved
EDIT: It was the Mobos Sata drivers, that showed this recovery partition as a usable drive.

Hi there.

Just bought new SSD: SAMSUNG 870 QVO 2TB

After setting it up, windows shows it as a removable disk. EDIT: not a problem, its was just a way windows displayed the driver icon as removable
I had 2 more spare SATA ports on my MOBO, tried both of them.

Never had this problem before, on all my PC's I installed new drives same way as this one.

Also, I've Updated my MOBO's SATA drivers, and now for some reason i can see the Windows recovery partition among my other drives.

https://imgur.com/a/kkXXITb

PC specs just in case: https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/list/zLDQCz
OS: Win 10 Pro

 

[USAFRet]

The Recovery is visible simply because it has a drive letter.
Disk Management, and remove that drive letter H.

 

[Mariusglock]

The Recovery is visible simply because it has a drive letter.
Disk Management, and remove that drive letter H.

It doest not show up in disk management
And it seems it is not one of the 4 unmarked ones, since theyre all 100% free of space

https://imgur.com/a/QXnN4Um

 

[USAFRet]

You have 3 physical drives, but we only see 2 in your Disk Management window.

 

[natcha12]

A BIOS setting may be activated which enables the disk to come up as removable, it is set per SATA, so the previous drives SATA that is now for the SSD may have been set as removable a while ago?

Did you make a drive clone by any chance? That would explain the double recovery partitions.

 

[Mariusglock]

I checked and Hot Plug is disabled on this and on all other drives, so it is not set as removable on BIOS.

No i have not made any clones. The PC its self is only 2 weeks old, I formated all of the old SSD's and HDD throu my old PC, and then installed them into this one, and then installed the OS. So it is strange that is shows double recovery partitions.

 

[USAFRet]

I checked and Hot Plug is disabled on this and on all other drives, so it is not set as removable on BIOS.

No i have not made any clones. The PC its self is only 2 weeks old, I formated all of the old SSD's and HDD throu my old PC, and then installed them into this one, adn them installed OS. So it is strange that is shows double recovery partitions.

Just formatting via File Explorer leaves behind those original small partitions.

 

[natcha12]

Just formatting via File Explorer leaves behind those original small partitions.

Yes. To totally remove them you need to use the CMD check disk utility.

Just lookup Windows chkdsk full format.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes. To totally remove them you need to use the CMD check disk utility.

Just lookup Windows chkdsk full format.

Not 'chkdsk'.
Instead, diskpart and the clean command.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/format-hard-drive-command-prompt,37632.html

How to Diskpart Erase/Clean a Drive Through the Command Prompt | Support Seagate US

This article explains the Microsoft Diskpart Erase utility. The command that erases the drive during this process is "Clean". In this article "Clean" and erase are used interchangeably. Cleaning or erasing a storage device removes all data and partitions from the drive.

www.seagate.com

https://searchwindowsserver.techtar...t-to-create-extend-or-delete-a-disk-partition

 

[natcha12]

Yeah my mistake. Been a while since I got a new drive

 

[Mariusglock]

Update: Its been a while It was the Mobos Sata drivers, that showed this recovery partition as a usable drive.