What to do if Windows shows two different letters for the same drive

It's a somewhat rare problem, but in some cases, Windows may show the same hard drive or twice using different drive letters.

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This behavior is usually the result when a user or program creates a virtual drive and maps it to your real drive. These virtual drives are not like virtual disks created with a virtualization software, but more like a shortcut or symbolic link that simply points to a .

The virtual drive doesn't show up in Disk Management (because it's not a real drive), but you can remove it using of commands. See below how.

Open a Command Prompt window and type the following command:

subdocument_display / d

Where the "virtual_drive_drive_letter" is the letter assigned to the drive. If you are not sure what the physical drive letter is and what the virtual drive letter is, open Disk Manager (for Windows 10 right-click on startup and go to Disk Management) and see which letter appears there. What appears is the actual unit. What does not appear is the virtual drive.

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In the case of our example, the confirms that C: is our real drive, which means G: is the virtual drive. So our subtraction command will become:

subst G: / d

Once you press Enter, the virtual drive must disappear immediately. You do not have to restart Windows or whatever. It is a problem that does not occur frequently, but when it does, it certainly causes panic, do not accidentally erase the entire physical disk.

In addition, you can type the subst command without any parameter to see all the virtual disks that you have on your system.

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