SSgt Gumby :
Guys, I disagree and here is why (I have two of these now): (1) Before this odd volume has never appeared and during this no appear time did I ever use the recovery partition that has a separate and verifiable partition of it's own called "Recovery". Yesterday morning BEFORE turning on my PC I had just ONE of these strange volumes (even after reformatting the drive beforehand this past weekend with no problems) then I turned on the PC and the hard drive makes this noise like it's stuck or something trying to access the files. Once I re-booted I looked at my C drive and ANOTHER weird volume showed up.
I believe these strange volumes appearing is as a result of an impending hard drive failure because Windows has and will automatically "isolate" the bad portion of the drive and set those bad sectors as an inaccessible partition and you can use the rest of the "good" drive.
HP over knighted me a new Barracuda drive that is larger (2 TB) and faster than the original one...............score.
Good luck but rest assured these partitions are NOT any portion of the recovery files or remnants there of.
SSgt Gumby
Based on my experience with my new HP Probook 45 G1 Notebook PC, I would tend to support SSgt Gumby's explanation for the appearance of the weird looking & unresponsive partition.
I have been experiencing intermittent soft-clicking noises coming the hard drive of my new HP Probook 450 G1 Notebook PC, which I noticed soon after upgrading fro Win 8 Pro to Win 8.1 Pro on 15 Apr 2014, and suspected immediately that it might the very early signs of HDD failure.
Yesterday, 3 May 2014, I decided to check the fragmentation status of the HDD partitions, & if necessary do manual defrags, only to discover that a strange looking partition, \\?\Volume{c44e2a1a-08ea-497a-9670-7908a919742}\ , had appeared since the last time I checked the fragmentation status of the HDD partitions on 15 Apr 2014, which was immediately after I upgraded from Win 8 Pro, to Win 8.1 Pro (a 3.69 GB download over 2 hrs 10 mins). This partition is 4% fragmented and resists any attempt to analyze or optimise (defrag).
It was soon after the Win 8.1 Pro upgrade, that I first noticed the intermittent soft clicking noise coming from the HDD, which would tend to support a connection between the strange looking partition, and the intermittent soft-clicking noise as the early signs of HDD failure
On Fri 1 May 2014, I ran an SFC, which detected some corrupt system files, but did not repair all of them. I subsequently ran the DISM utility, which apparently repaired, or replaced, the remaining corrupted system files, because when when I ran SFC again, it indicated that all was OK. The occurrence of the corrupted files in the first instance, would also tend to support my suspicion of early hard drive failure, although, presumably there could be other causes, for example, the "intermittent touchpad unresponsiveness problem" that I am also experiencing with Notebook PC, which, every 2-4 days forces me to do a Ctrl_Alt_Del > Power > restart of the Notebook.
I will run the SFC again, to find out whether any corruption of system files has occurred, since the last SFC /DISM successful Repair on 1 May 2014.
AlanCB